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
gt;> > doesn't run during your automation, but can be run by others who >> > want to test >> shrinking >> > on their storage type. >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Chandan Purushothama < >> > chandan.purushoth...@citrix.com> wro

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
chandan.purushoth...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > >> Marcus, > >> > >> May I know your response, > >> > >> Thank you, > >> Chandan. > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Chandan Purushothama [mailto:chandan.purushoth...@citr

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread John Dilley
; 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 shrinking

Re: Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Tutkowski
ugust 12, 2014 12:37 PM > To: Marcus > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Regarding Shrinking of Volume > > Hello Marcus, > > I see that shrinking of volume is not supported by XenServer > (CLOUDSTACK-7228) . May I know whether KVM with CLVM Data Volumes is the >

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

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

Regarding Shrinking of Volume

2014-08-12 Thread Chandan Purushothama
Hello Marcus, I see that shrinking of volume is not supported by XenServer (CLOUDSTACK-7228) . May I know whether KVM with CLVM Data Volumes is the only configuration that supports shrinking of data volume? If Yes, May I know if the corresponding test case that shrinks data disks be removed fro