Hi Lukas
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:18:37PM +0200, Lukas Martini wrote:
I understand the cloud images are supposed to be stripped down images with only the bare essentials for cloud operation.
Even more, they are destined for certain environments. OpenStack
technically is not part of that, but works in a lot of cases as a
generic OpenStack is just kvm and virtio, the same as GCE.
And some parts are disabled simply because they are large and of really uncertain use.
However I think it's quite unfortunate that the OCFS2 and GFS2 modules are also disabled compared to the regular kernel config since I would argue
those are _especially_ useful in a cloud environment.
Actually I don't think this is true. Why would you use GFS if your
environment already provides a redundant shared file storage for you?
Or can use a distributed store like ceph, which does not require huge
kernel extensions and are way more resilient.
For example, OpenStack offers multiattach images that require a shared-disk file system like these. I think Amazon AWS added a similar feature recently too.
Azure supports it, GCE supports it as a preview. I did not find
anything about AWS.
Is there any chance these could be re-enabled for the cloud images, or is
the official advice to just switch to the regular images where those are needed?
I don't think this warants shipping GFS and/or OCFS. If you really,
really want it, use the generic image with the full kernel, which is
required for several OpenStack environments anyway.
Regards,
Bastian
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