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

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

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Nux commented on CLOUDSTACK-5305:
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This has started to get some traction in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6181

> 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
>              Labels: disk, resize, root
>             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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