[Openstack] [Fuel] Question about recognizing large drives (i.e. 2TB+)

Adam Lawson alawson at aqorn.com
Tue Apr 14 04:08:53 UTC 2015


Thanks a million, so the answer as I understand it is that fuel supports
dives up to 16tb at which point some ext4 challenges begin to come into
play. Is that a correct statement?
On Apr 13, 2015 12:38 PM, "Miroslav Anashkin" <manashkin at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Greetings, Adam,
>
> Issues possible with partitions larger than 16 TB, since we use 32-bit
> Ext4 file system in several places.
>
> Fuel partition manager formats disk drives to GPT partitioning scheme only
> and explicitly set drive geometry to 1 TB for disks equal or larger than
> 1Tb.
> It allows to use GRUB 0.97 with CentOS 6.x over the large disks.
>
> Kind regards,
> Miroslav Anashkin
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Dmitry Pyzhov <dpyzhov at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> + Miroslav.
>>
>> Miroslav, do you monitor openstack at lists.openstack.org mailing list?
>> Nobody from my team is subscribed to it. Short answer is "no". A little bit
>> longer: we do have issues with partitions more than 16Tb because we use
>> 32bit ext4 in several places.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin at mirantis.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +Fuel provisioning team
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject:        [Openstack] [Fuel] Question about recognizing large
>>>> drives
>>>> (i.e. 2TB+)
>>>> Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:50:22 -0700
>>>> From:   Adam Lawson <alawson at aqorn.com>
>>>> To:     openstack <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hola OpenStack peeps,
>>>>
>>>> I heard recently that Fuel doesn't support hard drives larger than 500GB
>>>> unless they are re-formatted via RAIDx. Can someone on the Mirantis team
>>>> confirm or debunk this for me?
>>>>
>>>> Mahalo,
>>>> Adam
>>>> */
>>>> Adam Lawson/*
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
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