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  1. Simon Leinen
    Simon Leinen at |

    Thanks a lot for the article! It’s super useful for us to understand the limitations of this combination, which we use (mostly happy with our decision :-).

    Flatten volumes created from snapshots […] Just keep in mind that
    flattening clones increases the space used in your cluster.

    Yes, indeed – especially when a user spawns a large number of VMs – say 500 – from a given snapshot. With flattening, you’d need 500 complete copies. Without flattening, only one “base” volume is needed, but each VM can still manipulate their volume in isolation, thanks to RBD’s copy-on-write feature. We have (scientific) uses case for this, so I guess we’ll leave rbd_flatten_volume_from_snapshot set to false – which will hopefully remain the default.

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  3. mganguli
    mganguli at |

    Hi. It is great to see that there is a solution to the inefficient booting solution to test. What branch can we download to get that?
    thanks.

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