Re: [atomic-devel] docker storage setup

[Radek Vykydal <rvykydal redhat com>]

On 10/20/2014 08:23 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 08:36 AM, Radek Vykydal wrote:
> > I tested it with this Anaconda partitioning:
> >
> > /boot 300M ext4
> This should inherit the instclass' default filesystem (e.g. for RHEL,
> xfs).
>
> Particularly since we're switching to GRUB2 which has fine XFS support.

We'll do the same as in RHEL (use the same default)
which might be xfs in current rhel7-branch, not sure.
If it is not, we can set xfs explicitly for Atomic class.

> > / on 3G LV xfs (VG taking up all the space on disks selected for
> > installation)
> Yeah.  I sort of wonder whether we should hardcode the 3G or attempt
> to determine it from the ostree content (note: at the moment ostree
> doesn't
> say in the commit how big the content is, but it could).

This can be tricky as installclass is instantiated at very early
stage.

> > swap on the root's VG calculated automatically
> Right.
>
> > This is what we probably can set as autopart default for Atomic
> > installclass
> > (as opposed to current autopart wher root's LV takes up all free space
> > on VG).
> Is that doable?  I haven't dove into the anaconda autopart code at all.

Yes, I am working on it, I'll be sending a patch to anaconda-patches soon.