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| author | Steven Dake <stdake@cisco.com> | 2016-06-21 09:01:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Steven Dake <stdake@cisco.com> | 2016-06-21 09:02:30 -0700 |
| commit | 2d37c4ca8888b6451b17faa77d997b3ee7b106f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 58704c0b478fcf2f0d739ad9283746d2b36614cb /doc | |
| parent | bb2ac5f6f97116baf6836fbc74bf16d1205a37e6 (diff) | |
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Notify operators that cinder + LVM doesn't work
Cinder has closed a flaw in the design of either glance, cinder, or
OpenStack in general. Whatever the case is, LVM + multi-controller
doesn't work correctly.
TrivialFix
Change-Id: Ibe3445699cfdb1622279a85b6c4e612663d08def
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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diff --git a/doc/cinder-guide.rst b/doc/cinder-guide.rst index 825e7595e..05b5b3b5f 100644 --- a/doc/cinder-guide.rst +++ b/doc/cinder-guide.rst @@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ The cinder implementation defaults to using LVM storage. The default implementation requires a volume group be set up. This can either be a real physical volume or a loopback mounted file for development. +.. note :: + The Cinder community has closed a bug as WontFix which makes it + impossible for LVM to be used at all in a multi-controller setup. + The only option for multi-controller storage to work correctly at + present is via a Ceph deployment. If community members disagree + with this decision, please report the specific use case in the + Cinder bug tracker here: + `_bug 306756 <https://launchpad.net/bugs/306756>`__. + + Create a Volume Group ===================== Use ``pvcreate`` and ``vgcreate`` to create the volume group. For example |