ephemeral device does not have a filesystem

Bug #827598 reported by Scott Moser
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OpenStack Compute (nova)
Fix Released
Medium
Isaku Yamahata

Bug Description

$ sudo file --special-files /dev/vdb
/dev/vdb: data

On EC2 the ephemeral devices would have a filesystem on them. From a m1.small on amazon:
$ sudo file --special-files /dev/xvde2
/dev/xvde2: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data, UUID=3432270e-6e52-497c-b065-641b88f0b2ec (large files)
$ sudo file --special-files /dev/xvde3
/dev/xvde3: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size 229375 pages, no label, UUID=ac3ed24a-b027-4dd7-843e-2ac1d053ddb3

related bugs:
 bug 827590: cloud-init does not mount /mnt
 bug 828357: request to add a label to the filesystem for ephemeral devices

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Isaku Yamahata (yamahata) wrote :

Thank you for the report. I didn't know that behavior as I couldn't any documentation on it.
So I added fs format. Can you please give lp:~yamahata/nova/lp827598 a try?

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

I opened bug 828357 which is a feature request for sanely LABELEd filesystems on ephemeral block devices.

Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
assignee: nobody → Isaku Yamahata (yamahata)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Scott Moser (smoser)
description: updated
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in nova:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
milestone: none → 2011.3
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in nova:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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