Cinder SMB backend missing size correction of images

asked 2016-02-18 18:13:42 +0200

tomcsanyid
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Currently the Cinder SMB backend only copies the image file from Glance onto the SMB share and then signals the hypervisor that the image is ready, however there is a major step missing from this flow: re-sizing (extending) the image according to its flavor. Basically the VHDX's parameter 'maximum size' needs to be adjusted to the value that's coming from the controller (? this is just an assumption). Example: We have an Ubuntu image in Glance with the size of 2.3 GB. If the user selects a flavor that has a root disk size of 5 GB then he/she should be able to see 5 GB of disk in Linux, however this is not the case, 2.3GB is the reported size. Note that this is totally independent of the VHDX being dynamically expanding type. Please commit a fix to Cinder-SMB as soon as possible.

Cheers, Domi

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answered 2016-02-18 18:58:53 +0200

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updated 2016-02-19 19:05:13 +0200

Hi Domi,

You are referring to Cinder, so I'm assuming that you are doing a boot from volume instead of using a local disk. In that case the flavor does not apply to the size of the volume. The Cinder volume VHD(X) gets resized to the requested volume size, which in turn is attached to the Nova VM.

What is not clear is the 2.3 GB size. Volume sizes are multiples of 1GB, so the VHDX size should be e.g. 3GB. Are you sure that the reported size does not refer to the partition inside the VHDX and not the VHDX itself?

update

The master branch is not affected, while on Liberty, the recently added Cinder caching patch introduced a minor regression that affected resizing. The fix is trivial and has been committed to 7.0.0 / 7.0.1 release branches: https://github.com/cloudbase/cinder/c...

Thanks for signaling this issue,

Alessandro

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Hi Alessandro, the 2.3 GB is the reported partition size inside the VM using Linux. We are indeed doing a boot from volume. "The Cinder volume VHD(X) gets resized to the requested volume size, which in turn is attached to the Nova VM." -> this is exactly what should happen, but it doesn't apparently

tomcsanyid ( 2016-02-18 22:12:34 +0200 )edit

The partition inside the Linux VM needs to be extended by cloud-init (grow_root). Cinder's job is to resize the disk, not its content.

alexpilotti ( 2016-02-18 22:16:23 +0200 )edit

Indeed, but the disk isn't resize, that's the problem. Let me show you how the disk of a VM looks like using Get-VHD in PowerShell: http://paste.openstack.org/show/XHOr5HLQerN8Cg76ooZu/ do you see the problem? The Size parameter of it isn't modified to match the volume size requested

tomcsanyid ( 2016-02-18 22:31:12 +0200 )edit

Ok, that's why I was asking if it was the internal partition or the actual VHDX. This is definitely not good. :) We tested and everything looks good in our test environment, can you please paste a script with the sequence of CLI steps to reproduce it? (cinder create, etc)

alexpilotti ( 2016-02-19 01:44:08 +0200 )edit

We are not using cinder create directly, but Horizon to create a machine, so in CLI that would be nova boot like this: nova boot --nic net-id=net_id --flavor our_flavor --block-device source=image,id=3f74e0f8-0e2c-499f-8836-bcae029c8af2,dest=volume,size=10,shutdown=PRESERVE,bootindex=0 test

tomcsanyid ( 2016-02-19 12:07:34 +0200 )edit

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