[one-users] Change datastore location

[Daniel Molina]

On 6 August 2012 15:57, Javier Alvarez <javier.alvarez at bsc.es> wrote:
> This means that is not possible to create a datastore in a different place
> than the default one? However, if I instantiate an image stored there,
> OpenNebula fails because it expects to find it in the customized location:
>
> Mon Aug  6 15:40:59 2012 [TM][D]: Message received: LOG E 20 clone: Command
> "cd /data2/OpenNebula/datastores/0/20; cp -r
> ../../1/e8aa02fe4e65531ae8cf8aad7d888de6
> /data2/OpenNebula/datastores/0/20/disk.0" failed: cp: cannot stat
> `../../1/e8aa02fe4e65531ae8cf8aad7d888de6': No such file or directory
>
> e8aa02fe4e65531ae8cf8aad7d888de6 is actually in $ONE_LOCATION/var since I
> can't store images in a different place.

You can use symlinks in this case. What DS and TM are you using?

>
> Best,
>
> Javi
>
>
> On 06/08/12 15:18, Daniel Molina wrote:
>>
>> Note that changing the DATASTORE_LOCATION will only apply to the
>> Hosts, the frontend will keep using the same path
>> ('/var/lib/one/datastores')
>>
>> On 6 August 2012 15:10, Javier Alvarez <javier.alvarez at bsc.es> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, and the value showed at the beginning of oned.log is correct.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Javi
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/08/12 13:20, Daniel Molina wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Javier,
>>>>
>>>> On 6 August 2012 12:52, Javier Alvarez <javier.alvarez at bsc.es> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to change the location of the datastores? I have tried
>>>>> changing DATASTORE_LOCATION in oned.conf but when I create a new
>>>>> datastore
>>>>> it is placed in the default location.
>>>>
>>>> Did you restart oned after changing the DATASTORE_LOCATION value?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Javi
>>>>>
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