This might be slightly off topic though many of ceph users might have run into 
similar issues. 
For one of our Grizzly Openstack environment, we are using Ceph/RBD as the 
exclusive image and volume storage for VMs, which are booting from rbd backed 
Cinder volumes. As a result, nova image cache is being used at all. For some 
reasons, nova still creates image cache under /var/lib/nova/_base on nova 
nodes. This fills up our shared /var/lib/nova/instances (with NFS) directory. 
This NFS share has limited size (50GB) which is used to store config drive and 
enable VM failover/restart during HW failure.
Does anyone know how to disable nova image caching function completely? Or 
suggestion to best deal with this issue? We know we can do aggressive clearing 
with some of the nova image cache management configuration but that doesn't 
help reducing the extra IO overhead of caching image on the nova nodes.
Thanks. --weiguo                                          
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