Re: [atomic-devel] Proposal for default qcow2 image virtual size 10G instead of 6G

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal redhat com>]

Actually, point is, why not give a more reasonable default out of box so that
user does not have to customize it using cloud-init at all.

Thanks
Vivek

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 05:19:07PM +0000, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> Then cloud init
> 
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015, 8:18 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal redhat com> wrote:
> 
> > Sure. But all these are manual steps. Trying to give better defaults
> > out of the box.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 05:14:53PM +0000, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> > > You can do live expand of xfs, to take all the space type
> > >
> > > xfs_growfs /
> > >
> > > So you should do something like
> > >
> > > qemu-img resize myimg.qcow2 +20G
> > >
> > > then boot it then type
> > >
> > > xfs_growfs /
> > >
> > > Or use cloud init
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015, 8:04 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal redhat com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not sure what you are trying to say?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Vivek
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:59:08PM +0000, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> > > > > It's xfs so it will just expand.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015, 7:51 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal redhat com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Virtual size of qcow2 f22 atomic size is 6G. I am wondering if
> > there is
> > > > > > a reason behind such small size. Will 10G be a better default.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Right now out of 6G, 3G is consumed by rootfs. We also setup thin
> > pool
> > > > > > for docker which will consume 40% of free space (or 2G minimum).
> > Some
> > > > > > people are finding that out of box, there is not enough space for
> > thin
> > > > > > pool and 3G free space gets exhausted pretty fast.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it a good idea to bump up default virtual size to 10G?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Vivek
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >