[Ci-users] Disk space on ci nodes

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On 22/01/16 05:18, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to get raw block device storage on nodes in the CI? 
> Right now from what I can tell the nodes come up with LVM set up
> and no space free in the volume group. There is a root/home/swap LV
> and we can't really reclaim any space because xfs doesn't support
> shrinking the FS.
> 
> Can we have some free space left in the VG? Is there some other way
> to get this to happen?
> 
> Thanks, Dusty

Initially, the kickstart[s] we use to deploy CentOS {5,6,7} were using
the whole disk as one PV, one VG, but minimal space for the LVs.
Then people complaint about that, because their tests weren't doing
the resize2fs/xfs_grow operations, so we decided to just add the
- --grow option :

part /boot --fstype="ext4" --ondisk=mpatha --size=500
part pv.14 --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=mpatha --size=10000 --grow
volgroup vg_{{ inventory_hostname_short }} --pesize=4096 pv.14
logvol /home  --fstype="xfs" --size=2412 --name=home --vgname=vg_{{
inventory_hostname_short }} --grow --maxsize=100000
logvol /  --fstype="xfs" --size=8200 --name=root --vgname=vg_{{
inventory_hostname_short }} --grow --maxsize=1000000
logvol swap  --fstype="swap" --size=2136 --name=swap --vgname=vg_{{
inventory_hostname_short }}

Happy to revisit that if needed.
One option would be to have Duffy do the resize operation[s] before
giving a node by default, and not touch the layout/fs if called with
something like "&resizefs=no"
Problem is that in such case, the "connect to node, analyze, resizefs"
operations would add time to the api request/answer, so not sure if
that's the way to go

Now for your raw block device storage, unfortunately there is actually
no option, but still something we can probably do through iscsi.
What would be the requirements for your tests ?

- -- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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