What's the default device which MAAS provision OS in ?

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 26 17:10:51 UTC 2015


On 26/09/15 17:38, Ali wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 4:45 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> In MAAS 1.9 you will be able to say, in the UI or through the API, which device to use for the root filesystem. That information will be conveyed to the installer in a way which is not dependent on kernel naming. So you will always get the root filesystem where you expect it.
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>> Mark
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> I realize this is more of a MaaS question but is there any documentation on how this will work? In particular I'd like to see an option to select which type of storage is used for the root file system (e.g. Hd vs ssd vs nvme) when multiple medium are available in a machine. 

Yes, you can do that, and you can also setup things like BCACHE, LVM or
RAID and point MAAS to the partition you want your install on.

Mark



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