Disk: "Virtual root disk size in gigabytes. This is an ephemeral disk that the base image is copied into. When booting from a persistent volume it is not used. The “0” size is a special case which uses the native base image size as the size of the ephemeral root volume."
I'm not sure what needs updating in the admin guide for this, I already see this:
http:// docs.openstack. org/admin- guide/compute- flavors. html
Disk: "Virtual root disk size in gigabytes. This is an ephemeral disk that the base image is copied into. When booting from a persistent volume it is not used. The “0” size is a special case which uses the native base image size as the size of the ephemeral root volume."