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

Miroslav Anashkin manashkin at mirantis.com
Fri Apr 17 17:00:35 UTC 2015


Yes, correct.

Kind regards,
Miroslav Anashkin

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Adam Lawson <alawson at aqorn.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yours Faithfully,
>>>> Vladimir Kuklin,
>>>> Fuel Library Tech Lead,
>>>> Mirantis, Inc.
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>>>> +7 (926) 702-39-68
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Kind Regards*
>>
>> *Miroslav Anashkin**L2 support engineer**,*
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>>
>> manashkin at mirantis.com
>>
>>
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*Kind Regards*

*Miroslav Anashkin**L2 support engineer**,*
*Mirantis Inc.*
*+7(495)640-4944 (office receptionist)*
*+1(650)587-5200 (office receptionist, call from US)*
*35b, Bld. 3, Vorontsovskaya St.*
*Moscow**, Russia, 109147.*

www.mirantis.com

manashkin at mirantis.com
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