docs: Add more information about RBD cloning to the Release Notes
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/commit/a7f861f8 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/tree/a7f861f8 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/diff/a7f861f8 Branch: refs/heads/disk-cache Commit: a7f861f8d9df47e186ff8b30f9f9dc36bde0005c Parents: a16fd47 Author: Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> Authored: Mon Sep 2 22:03:25 2013 +0200 Committer: Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> Committed: Mon Sep 2 22:03:25 2013 +0200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack/blob/a7f861f8/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml index 9d94dd3..bd51b61 100644 --- a/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml +++ b/docs/en-US/Release_Notes.xml @@ -237,6 +237,10 @@ under the License. copied to Primary Storage once and using the cloning mechanism new disks will be cloned from this parent template. This saves space and decreases deployment time for Instances dramatically.</para> + <para>Cloning will however only work with new templates and when they are freshly downloaded + to primary storage. Templates currently stored on RBD Primary Storage are in RBD format 1 + which does not support cloning. Loglevel debug on the Agent will show if cloning is used + when deploying a template or not.</para> <para>Before this release a NFS Primary Storage was still required for running the System VMs from. The reason behind this was a so called 'patch disk' which was generated by the hypervisor which contained metadata for the System VM. The scripts generating this disk
