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do not partition disks in iSCSI (team#40775)
We decided against repartitionning the disk at all. To quote the above ticket: > the rationale, for the SAN, is especially that we have a lot of > devices already for the LUNs. a single LUN creates six devices in > the kernel (3 paths for each controller, so six), which makes > commands like lsblk and multipath -ll really unreadable quick. by > having three LUNs per VM, we explode this to eighteen (18!) devices > per VM, which is really a mess. i even wonder if we might hit the > number of maximum devices allowed internally... > > point is: one LUN per partition per VM is messy. and anyways, it's > not how "the cloud" works, typically; when you ask for a 100GB VM > from Amazon, they don't give you the VM partitionned in whatever > they think is the right chunk, they just give you a f*kn 100GB disk, > period. in our case, ganeti-instance-debootstrap hacks at this to > prepend a MBR (and with GPT, we should probably have an EFI > partition), but whatever: point is it's just one fkn disk.
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