Re: [Openstack] How can I specify which filesystem to use for ephemeral storage per image?

Not sure if it helps bumping my own email, but here's a launchpad question as well. Still haven't been able to solve this, it's keeping us from transitioning our windows tests from eucalyptus. https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/212734 --Erik On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Erik

Re: [Openstack] How can I specify which filesystem to use for ephemeral storage per image?

Ok, I figured out my problem. My nova.conf BEFORE: virt_mkfs=default=mkfs.ext4 -L %(fs_label)s -F %(target)s virt_mkfs=windows=mkfs.ntfs --force --fast --label %(fs_label)s %(target)s This is from the docs, but it's not right. Removing the citation marks made it work as expected:

Re: [Openstack] How can I specify which filesystem to use for ephemeral storage per image?

Are those not the default settings? https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/disk/api.py#L66 Thanks, Kiall On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Erik Lindblad erik.lindb...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, I figured out my problem. My nova.conf BEFORE: virt_mkfs=default=mkfs.ext4 -L

[Openstack] How can I specify which filesystem to use for ephemeral storage per image?

Hi! I'm running a nova cloud (essex) with both linux and windows instances. I want the windows images to boot with an ephemeral pre-formatted ntfs drive. I've tried setting: virt_mkfs=windows=mkfs.ntfs --force --fast --label %(fs_label)s %(target)s in nova.conf and I've also set the os_type