Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-14 Thread John Dilley
Subject: Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume This would also have to provide some info as to what constitutes a smaller disk offering (then, I suppose, the GUI would use that info to compare the current offering against the proposed offering). On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:51 AM, John Dilley

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-14 Thread Mike Tutkowski
com] > *Sent:* 14 August 2014 02:57 > *To:* dev@cloudstack.apache.org > *Cc:* John Dilley > > *Subject:* Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume > > > > As an example, I will note that the GUI submits requests to the management > server that it could - in theory - validate loc

RE: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-14 Thread John Dilley
Dilley Subject: Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume As an example, I will note that the GUI submits requests to the management server that it could - in theory - validate locally. However, the GUI is (rightly) intended in CloudStack to be a thin layer on top of the API. It purposefully avoids

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Tutkowski
gt;FS at >> > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Resize+Data+Volumes >> > claims that XenServer can shrink data volumes. Can I edit it and remove >> >that claim from FS? Kindly let me know, >> > >> >Thank you, >> >Ch

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Tutkowski
> > > >-Original Message----- > >From: Marcus [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > >Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1:12 PM > >To: John Dilley > >Cc: > >Subject: Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume > > > >If you're asking what I think, it wo

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Nitin Mehta
Data+Volumes > claims that XenServer can shrink data volumes. Can I edit it and remove >that claim from FS? Kindly let me know, > >Thank you, >Chandan. > >-Original Message- >From: Marcus [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1:12 PM >To

RE: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Chandan Purushothama
sage- From: Marcus [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1:12 PM To: John Dilley Cc: Subject: Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume If you're asking what I think, it would be RAW. The pool type would be CLVM, though. This is probably a better solution, as we likely wan

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Marcus
If you're asking what I think, it would be RAW. The pool type would be CLVM, though. This is probably a better solution, as we likely want to grow the cases that the automated tests run. If we're testing KVM at all it is trivial to set up an LVM volume group as a storage pool to test against. O

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread John Dilley
Hi, I'll put a condition around the block that does the shrinking only in the case of CLVM. Would the disk image type be "CLVM" instead of "qcow2"? Thanks, John > On 13 Aug 2014, at 20:39, "Mike Tutkowski" > wrote: > > This is how Marcus responded: > > Yes, this is true. Ideally other stor

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Tutkowski
This is how Marcus responded: Yes, this is true. Ideally other storage maintainers/drivers would implement it as well, but we only committed a test for shrinking clvm (over a year ago now). I'd like to keep the test itself to run regression against clvm, but since this test is being used now for s

RE: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Chandan Purushothama
Marcus, May I know your response, Thank you, Chandan. -Original Message- From: Chandan Purushothama [mailto:chandan.purushoth...@citrix.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:37 PM To: Marcus Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Regarding Shrinking of Volume Hello Marcus, I see that

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-12 Thread Marcus
Yes, this is true. Ideally other storage maintainers/drivers would implement it as well, but we only committed a test for shrinking clvm (over a year ago now). I'd like to keep the test itself to run regression against clvm, but since this test is being used now for some continuous integration or o