[one-users] Adding support for file system LABELs at image creation ? - Was: Re: Disks device mapping wrong in docs ?

[Jaime Melis]

Hi Olivier,

yep, it's  a good idea. We'll follow the issue you created [1] and
implement it at some point.

Thanks for your feedback,
Jaime

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1292

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Olivier Berger <
olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:26:00 +0200, Jaime Melis <jmelis at opennebula.org>
> wrote:
> > Once the vm starts we basically have no control as to where the operating
> > systems puts the drives. The use of LABEL= and UUID= in the guest vms
> helps
> > a lot, as you have already noticed.
> >
>
> Using LABELs is indeed probably the most suitable option.
>
> I've then filed a feature request
> (http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1292) to ask for the possibility to
> define the image's LABELs for DISK image specifications in the VM
> template.
>
> One could then define a :
> DISK = [ TYPE = fs,
>         SIZE = 4096,
>         FORMAT = ext3,
>         SAVE = yes,
>         TARGET = sdh,
>         LABEL = opt ]
>
> And one would then use a LABEL=opt in /etc/fstab to be able to mount it.
>
> It would probably be quite easy to add some mkfs.ext3 -L command to
> add the ext3 label when the image is created.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Olivier BERGER
> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
> Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
> Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
>
>


-- 
Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org
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