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, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc