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Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45856] Mon, 09 April 2012 21:13 Go to next message
Rene is currently offline  Rene
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Is anyone running ploop in production yet. It is in the stable release branch but the Wiki page still says it is not save for production use. Is the Wiki page outdated, or what?

Would there be any conflict running ploop on top of LVM?

Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45857 is a reply to message #45856] Mon, 09 April 2012 21:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Just tried to convert a CT to ploop on a test server - it didn't get very far:

# vzctl convert 100 --layout ploop
Creating image: /vz1/private/100.ploop/root.hdd/root.hdd size=9223372036854775807K
Creating delta /vz1/private/100.ploop/root.hdd/root.hdd bs=2048 size=-2 sectors
Storing /vz1/private/100.ploop/root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml
Floating point exception


Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45865 is a reply to message #45856] Tue, 10 April 2012 15:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Recent discussions on the list tell me that the wiki page is not outdated, ploop is not recommended for production environment. The technology just recently became available.

As to the error - I'm not running it and haven't made any tests on it yet, so I can't help you there...
Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45918 is a reply to message #45865] Sat, 14 April 2012 14:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks Ales. What list is that, something I could subscribe to?
Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45919 is a reply to message #45856] Sun, 15 April 2012 18:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Sure, it was the openvz users list and the list info is here:

http://wiki.openvz.org/Mailing_list

The ploop info came from this thread:

http://openvz.org/pipermail/users/2012-April/004628.html
Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #45951 is a reply to message #45856] Fri, 20 April 2012 01:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Some customers of us which are using their servers for testing purposes to bug-track our platforms, are pretty excited.

The only thing what needs to be fixed is the problems in backing up the containers. Please DON'T use VZDump to backup a ploop file system. This can cause a high unavailability of your containers.

As we can see the testing results, we have to do a lot to get everything better in combination of backups, snapshots and either control panels.


Kind regards,

VDS Extreme - Technical Department
Re: Ploop - anyone using in production yet? [message #46122 is a reply to message #45857] Thu, 26 April 2012 16:44 Go to previous message
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Rene,

For simfs, diskspace parameter is basically a quota limit for given CT. For ploop, diskspace becomes the size of ploop device, and thus it can't be set arbitrarily high.

So, before trying to convert, set diskspace to some sensible value, for example

vzctl set 5000 --diskspace 10G --save

or smth. Then convert.

I have modified vzctl to check for too high value of diskspace and emit an error if it is the case.


Kir Kolyshkin
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