which reminds me, what about using some filesystem (on virt) which supports compression? big chunks of virtual hdds are easy to compress and that could save a lot of space as well, but it could hurt performance a bit...
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe there are lots of instances that haven't been touched for > months. If you hibernate them and compress their storages, you could > probably save a lot of space and no one would mind... and if they > needed them again you could just recover them :P > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >> Though it isn't currently critical, we're getting low on local-storage >> across the virtualization cluster. This is the space used by /mnt and / on >> instances. If you have unused instances, please delete them to free up some >> disk space. >> >> In general it's nice to occasionally clean-up anything you have that isn't >> being used, so that resources will be available for folks that need them. >> >> - Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
