allow disabling ephemeral disk formatting
today we support specifying a default format to use for ephemeral disks created by nova.
and we have logic to auto-select based on the guest os in the image
This blueprint tracks enabling a way to opt out of the formating of ephemeral disk so that they are just presented
like cinder volumes as a blank device to the guest. this will enable operators to remove the libguestfs depency form nova with libvirt if they do not use file injection with is already deprecated in nova.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Sylvain Bauza
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- sean mooney
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- sean mooney
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for antelope
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
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there is one open question here shoudl the existing config option be extended
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i was originally going to do the former but i think the latter is cleaner code wise.
we discussed this in the nova team meeting on the 17th of January add agreed to proceed with this as a specless blueprint and and a new value "unformatted" to model the desired behavior. additional the help text will be updated to document the behaviour of the current default "None" which means the format is dependent on the virt driver and virt_type.
The motivating usecases are:
- as an operator, i would like to delegate partitioning and formatting of nova ephemeral disks to the end user
- as a packager i would like to reduce the container footprint by making libguestfs optional where ephemeral disk formating is not used and file injection is not required.
[20230307 bauzas] Deferred as implementation not merged in 2023.1
