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[Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Deliberate change.

It used to be that KVM and XS did different things as far as disk partitioning.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/disk-configuration-parity

Now a flavor can specify the root vs ephemeral partition size
independently instead of being decided by choice of hypervisor.

Jesse

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:47 PM, David Kranz <david.kranz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In tracking down a problem with the tempest flavors test I noticed that
> 'nova flavor-list' returns this in Essex:
>
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
> | ID |    Name   | Memory_MB | Swap | Local_GB | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor |
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
> | 1  | m1.tiny   | 512       |      | 0        | 1     | 1.0         |
> | 2  | m1.small  | 2048      |      | 10       | 1     | 1.0         |
> | 3  | m1.medium | 4096      |      | 10       | 2     | 1.0         |
> | 4  | m1.large  | 8192      |      | 10       | 4     | 1.0         |
> | 5  | m1.xlarge | 16384     |      | 10       | 8     | 1.0         |
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
>
> and this in Diablo:
>
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
> | ID |    Name   | Memory_MB | Swap | Local_GB | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor |
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
> | 1  | m1.tiny   | 512       | 0    | 0        | 1     |             |
> | 2  | m1.small  | 2048      | 0    | 20       | 1     |             |
> | 3  | m1.medium | 4096      | 0    | 40       | 2     |             |
> | 4  | m1.large  | 8192      | 0    | 80       | 4     |             |
> | 5  | m1.xlarge | 16384     | 0    | 160      | 8     |             |
> +----+-----------+-----------+------+----------+-------+-------------+
>
> Note that Local_GB changed from 0,20,40,80,160 to 0,10,10,10,10. These
> values are coming straight from the API call.
> Is this a bug or a deliberate change?
>
>  -David
>
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