Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-26 Thread Adam Huffman
Just wanted to mention in this context that those of us with GPFS backing stores need RAW to allow copy-on-write image and volume creation. On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Tim Bell wrote: > > > > > > On 25/10/15 23:57, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: > >>On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 07:42:53AM +, Ti

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-25 Thread Tim Bell
On 25/10/15 23:57, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: >On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 07:42:53AM +, Tim Bell wrote: >> Always having ephemeral disks as raw might make sense given that there >> is going to be little overlap with others (and therefore the qcow2 >> benefits are not significant) > >The cu

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-25 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 07:42:53AM +, Tim Bell wrote: > Always having ephemeral disks as raw might make sense given that there > is going to be little overlap with others (and therefore the qcow2 > benefits are not significant) The current big benefit for qcow2 is really the abilityo have a ba

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-24 Thread Tim Bell
Always having ephemeral disks as raw might make sense given that there is going to be little overlap with others (and therefore the qcow2 benefits are not significant) I guess this could also be a simple nova.conf flag per hypervisor with low risk (a default ephemeral format to qcow2 or raw).

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-23 Thread Marc Heckmann
Hi Daniel, On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 12:05 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:01:42PM +, Marc Heckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:17 -0700, Abel Lopez wrote: > > > I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, > > > but found

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
eckmann ; openstack- > > operat...@lists.openstack.org > > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images > > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:21:23AM +, Tim Bell wrote: > > > > > > On 22/10/15 20:01, "Marc Heckmann" >

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-23 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:01:42PM +, Marc Heckmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:17 -0700, Abel Lopez wrote: > > I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, > > but found the options lacking. I last looked in Juno. > > > > On Thursday, October 22, 2015,

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-23 Thread Tim Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Kashyap Chamarthy [mailto:kcham...@redhat.com] > Sent: 23 October 2015 12:37 > To: Tim Bell > Cc: Marc Heckmann ; openstack- > operat...@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images > > On Fri,

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-23 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:21:23AM +, Tim Bell wrote: > > On 22/10/15 20:01, "Marc Heckmann" wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:17 -0700, Abel Lopez wrote: > >> I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, > >> but found the options lacking. I last looke

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
On 22/10/15 20:01, "Marc Heckmann" wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:17 -0700, Abel Lopez wrote: >> I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, >> but found the options lacking. I last looked in Juno. >> >> On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Tim Bell wrote: >>

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-22 Thread Marc Heckmann
Hi, On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:17 -0700, Abel Lopez wrote: > I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, > but found the options lacking. I last looked in Juno. > > On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Tim Bell wrote: > > > Has anyone had experience

Re: [Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-22 Thread Abel Lopez
I've actually looked for this for our RBD backed ephemeral instances, but found the options lacking. I last looked in Juno. On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Tim Bell wrote: > > > Has anyone had experience with setting up Nova with KVM so it has raw > ephemeral disks but qcow2 images for the VMs ?

[Openstack-operators] raw ephemeral disks and qcow2 images

2015-10-22 Thread Tim Bell
Has anyone had experience with setting up Nova with KVM so it has raw ephemeral disks but qcow2 images for the VMs ? We've got very large ephemeral disks and could benefit from the performance of raw volumes for this. Tim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature __