[DEV-1038] Cloud init lvm growpart

[g0rgamesh]

• added growpart functionality for lvm partitions

[markgoddard]

Could we talk about this in the context of the recent work on a standard Kayobe host image. I want to avoid duplication of work and differing solutions.

[markgoddard]

Given the change in direction for user images, do we still need this?

[g0rgamesh]

Given the change in direction for user images, do we still need this?

Of course, not everyone will use non-lvm images. I will also push it upstream later.

[markgoddard]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

[g0rgamesh]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

Only on rhel family, other families do not have this problem.

[markgoddard]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

Only on rhel family, other families do not have this problem.

That's for the PVs. The LVs are still small.

[g0rgamesh]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

Only on rhel family, other families do not have this problem.

That's for the PVs. The LVs are still small.

Of course, but if you want to make them bigger you just need to extend them, I would not assume which LVs the user wants to be big. Similarly, if a whole new set of app specific LVs would be needed it can be created immediately.

[mnasiadka]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

Only on rhel family, other families do not have this problem.

That's for the PVs. The LVs are still small.

Of course, but if you want to make them bigger you just need to extend them, I would not assume which LVs the user wants to be big. Similarly, if a whole new set of app specific LVs would be needed it can be created immediately.

Gents, can we please just have two ,,flavours'' of images? Without LVM and with LVM?
Obviously we have some use for those with LVM, I understand the case for the non-LVM ones - let's just have both, or am I missing some point?

[markgoddard]

They would still need to increase the LVs to make the system usable.

Only on rhel family, other families do not have this problem.

That's for the PVs. The LVs are still small.

Of course, but if you want to make them bigger you just need to extend them, I would not assume which LVs the user wants to be big. Similarly, if a whole new set of app specific LVs would be needed it can be created immediately.

Gents, can we please just have two ,,flavours'' of images? Without LVM and with LVM? Obviously we have some use for those with LVM, I understand the case for the non-LVM ones - let's just have both, or am I missing some point?

I think we're agreed on that point, I just wondered why we're still spending time on this PR when it's handled by kayobe

[mnasiadka]

Kayobe is not the only usage for LVM based install in the world, time was already spent, let's merge this - maybe it will come useful somewhere else - we're not planning to use this on production customer installs (so don't worry about different approaches to the same problem). Can we agree to merge this and forget?