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Ensure that the ext4 fs can be rebuilt up to 1PB in size.

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Robert Collins 2013-05-11 16:36:32 +12:00
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@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ cloud: e.g. a nova-compute node. Images produce either a filesystem image with
a label of cloudimg-rootfs, or can be customised to produce whole disk images
(but will still contain a filesystem labelled cloudimg-rootfs). Once the file
system tree is assembled a loopback device with filesystem (or partition table
and file system) is created and the tree copied into it.
and file system) is created and the tree copied into it. The file system
created is an ext4 filesystem just large enough to hold the file system tree
and can be resized up to 1PB in size.
An element is a particular set of code that alters how the image is built, or
runs within the chroot to prepare the image. E.g. the local-config element

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bin/disk-image-create
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@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ else
MKFS_OPTS="-i 4096"
fi
fi
# allow up to 1PB of 4KB blocks.
OPTS="$MKFS_OPTS -E resize=274877906944"
LOOPDEV=$(sudo losetup --show -f $TMP_IMAGE_PATH)
export EXTRA_UNMOUNT="detach_loopback $LOOPDEV"