On 22/01/16 10:53, Niels de Vos wrote:
We would like to have raw block devices for Gluster testing too. Gluster can do snapshots based on lvm-thinp, and we recommend to use a dedicated Volume Group for each brick. Our tests can use files over /dev/loop* devices, but that is not how things should be used for real world setups.
The way to resolve that would be to request the instances from Duffy, and then reprovision as needed. that way you own the timelag and process to provision the box ( we can help, ofcourse ). Rather than needing a systemside / system-wide change in the base layer.
Not sure about the iscsi suggestion, a network filesystem over network block devices is not very common either ;-)
ofcourse, that depends on what you are testing. If perf becomes a thing, then you certainly dont want to go down that route.
regards,