The behavior is consistent with the design. This is one of the drivers why --size was set read only for v2 api. We should not change the v1 behavior at state when we are trying to deprecate it.
** Changed in: glance Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to Glance. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315032 Title: when using --size after image is created, the size shown is the image actual size Status in OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance): Won't Fix Bug description: when I create an image using --size, while image is in status saving we see the requested size but after images is created we see the image's actual size: during saving: [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# glance image-list --human +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 | dafna_zise1 | qcow2 | bare | 19.5MB | saving | after image was saved: [root@orange-vdsf images(keystone_admin)]# glance image-list --human +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status | +--------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------+---------+--------+ | 292c11dd-a16b-46a0-b176-d665293273b3 | dafna_zise1 | qcow2 | bare | 6GB | active | To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1315032/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp