[Ci-users] Duffy v2: Please send RFEs!

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:36:04PM -0500, Brian Stinson wrote:
> On Aug 22 11:26, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:55:46PM -0500, Brian Stinson wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > 
> > > You're likely familiar with our node provisioner Duffy
> > > (https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CI/Duffy). 
> > > 
> > > In order to support new features, and encourage interested folks to
> > > participate in development with us, we are gathering requirements to get
> > > started soon on Duffy Version 2. Duffy2 will be developed with an OSS
> > > license, and posted in a public repository.  
> > > 
> > > Some of you have pending RFEs that we'll deal with during development: 
> > > - Support Fedora Images (https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13626)
> > > - Support for cloud VMs in cloud.ci.centos.org 
> > > - Support for VLAN Isolation on the Seamicro hardware
> > > - Support for extending an existing session
> > >   (https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9773)
> > > 
> > > If you have a feature request for us to track let's talk about it here.
> > 
> > It would be helpful to have an option for keeping extras disks (or a
> > partition) available for free-to-use storage. This can help testing
> > features in Gluster (and probably Ceph) that require a block device. We
> > currently work around that with disk-images/losetup kind of approaches,
> > but it is definitely not how actual deployments are expected to be done.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> 
> Would some proportion of free space in the primary volume group be
> sufficient for your needs, or do you need bare partitions? 

A bare partition would be better. For snapshots of Gluster volumes we
use LVM thin-provisioning and need to setup a VG for that. There is also
work in progress to support btrfs snapshots, and I dont think we should
place those on a PV either.

Niels