Configure an Optional Cinder File System

By default, qcow2 to raw image-conversion is done using the docker_lv file system. To avoid filling up the docker_lv file system, you can create a new file system dedicated for image conversion as described in this section.

Prerequisites:

• The requested size of the image-conversion file system should be big enough to accommodate any image that is uploaded to Glance.

• The recommended size for the file system must be at least twice as large as the largest converted image from qcow2 to raw.

• The conversion file system can be added before or after stx-openstack is applied.

• The conversion file system must be added on both controllers. Otherwise, stx-openstack will not use the new file system.

• If the conversion file system is added after stx-openstack is applied, changes to stx-openstack will only take effect once the application is reapplied.

The image-conversion file system can only be added on the controllers, and must be added, with the same size, to both controllers. Alarms will be raised, if:

• The conversion file system is not added on both controllers.

• The size of the file system is not the same on both controllers.

Adding a New Filesystem for Image-Conversion

1. Use the host-fs-add command to add a file system dedicated to qcow2 to raw image-conversion.

   ~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-add <<hostname or id>> <<fs-name=size>>
   

   Where:

   hostname or id

   is the location where the file system will be added

   fs-name

   is the file system name

   size

   is an integer indicating the file system size in Gigabytes

   For example:

   ~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-add controller-0 image-conversion=8
   +----------------+--------------------------------------+
   | Property       | Value                                |
   +----------------+--------------------------------------+
   | uuid           | 52bfd1c6-93b8-4175-88eb-a8ee5566ce71 |
   | name           | image-conversion                     |
   | size           | 8                                    |
   | logical_volume | conversion-lv                        |
   | created_at     | 2020-09-18T17:08:54.413424+00:00     |
   | updated_at     | None                                 |
   +----------------+--------------------------------------+
   

2. When the image-conversion filesystem is added, a new partition /opt/conversion is created and mounted.

3. Use the following command to list the file systems.

   ~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-list controller-0
   +--------------------+------------------+-------------+----------------+
   | UUID               | FS Name          | Size in GiB | Logical Volume |
   +--------------------+------------------+-------------+----------------+
   | b5ffb565-4af2-4f26 | backup           | 25          | backup-lv      |
   | a52c5c9f-ec3d-457c | docker           | 30          | docker-lv      |
   | 52bfd1c6-93b8-4175 | image-conversion | 8           | conversion-lv  |
   | a2fabab2-054d-442d | kubelet          | 10          | kubelet-lv     |
   | 2233ccf4-6426-400c | scratch          | 16          | scratch-lv     |
   +--------------------+------------------+-------------+----------------+
   

Resizing the File System

You can change the size of the image-conversion file system at runtime using the following command:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-modify <hostname or id> <fs-name=size>

For example:

~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-modify controller-0 image-conversion=8

Removing the File System

1. You can remove an image-conversion file system dedicated to qcow2 image-conversion using the following command:

   ~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-fs-delete <<hostname or id>> <<fs-name>>
   

2. When the image-conversion file system is removed from the system, the /opt/conversion partition is also removed.

Note

You cannot delete an image-conversion file system when stx-openstack is in the applying,**applied**, or removing state.

You cannot add or remove any other file systems using these commands.