[Users] convert to ploop

[Devon B.]

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



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.
>