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