[jira] [Created] (CLOUDSTACK-5305) Allow resize of ROOT disk

["Nux (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Nux created CLOUDSTACK-5305:
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             Summary: Allow resize of ROOT disk
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-5305
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5305
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: Improvement
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
            Reporter: Nux
             Fix For: Future


Hello,

The current size lock-in of the ROOT disk based on the template is not consistent and creates problem.

I've always toyed with the idea of a market place, sadly the random size lock-in is the major turn-off.

Additionally it may be one of the causes (along with lack of popularity) for distributions not to provide OS image templates as they do for Openstack; which gets me to the next issue:
- official images for Openstack could be used with minimal modifications now that cloud-init started to support Cloudstack as a data source, but most of these images are very minimal (< 1GB) since they rely on dracut-modules-growroot and similar to expand to the target disk.

This hinders adoption.

I don't know how it's done on other hypervisors, on KVM I believe the template could be used as a backing file; interesting read:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/



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