[Users] convert to ploop

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 11/10/2014 05:51 PM, Nick Knutov wrote:
> Thanks, this is working.
>
> For wiki - I did
>
> find /etc/vz/conf/*.conf -type f -exec sed -i.bak
> "s/DISKINODES/#DISKINODES/g" {} \;
>
> VE=123 ; vzctl stop $VE ; vzctl convert $VE ; vzctl start $VE

By the way I just found it's enough to set DISKINODES to 0
(after stopping a container of course).

>
> Unfortunatly, I do not understand how to work with/edit MediaWiki and
> I'm not sure on what page it's better to add this.

I have modified this:

     https://openvz.org/Ploop/Getting_started#Creating_a_new_CT,

and also wrote a whole new

     https://openvz.org/Ploop/diskinodes

Hope it's enough information now.

>
> 25.10.2014 7:32, Kirill Kolyshkin пишет:
>> On Oct 24, 2014 5:33 PM, "Devon B." <devon.b at virtualcomplete.com
>> <mailto:devon.b at virtualcomplete.com>> wrote:
>>> I think what Kir was getting at was set the diskinodes equal to 65536
>> x GiB before converting.  So for 40GiB, set diskinodes to 2621440
>>
>> Either that, or just remove the DISKINODES from CT config
>>
>>> On 10/24/2014 8:05 PM, Nick Knutov wrote:
>>>> Thanks, now I understand why this occurred, but what is the easiest way
>>>> to convert a lot of different CTs to ploop? As I remember there is no
>>>> way to set up unlimited diskinodes or disable them (in case I want to
>>>> use CT size when converting to ploop and don't want to think about
>>>> inodes at all).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 25.10.2014 5:31, Kir Kolyshkin пишет:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Previously, we didn't support setting diskinodes for ploop, but later we
>>>>> found
>>>>> a way to implement it (NOTE: for vzctl create and vzctl convert only).
>>>>> The trick we use it we create a file system big enough to accomodate the
>>>>> requested number of inodes, and then use ploop resize (in this case
>>>>> downsize)
>>>>> to bring it down to requested amount.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this case, 1G inodes requirements leads to creation of 16TB
>> filesystem
>>>>> (remember, 1 inode per 16K). Unfortunately, such huge FS can't be
>> downsized
>>>>> to as low as 40G, the minimum seems to be around 240G (values printed in
>>>>> the error message are in sectors which are 512 bytes each).
>>>>>
>>>>> Solution: please be reasonable when requesting diskinodes for ploop.
>>>>
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