[lxc-users] LXD_LVM_LVSIZE envvar usage

[Tycho Andersen]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:55:21PM +0100, Fabrizio Furnari wrote:
> I've also tried to export it into the /etc/init.d/lxd script in the same
> way, but seems not to apply...Is it possible that applies only during the
> LV thinpool creation time (LXDPool)?

Based on my read of the code it should be applied on every `lvcreate`.
You might check:

strings /proc/`pidof lxd`/environ

to make sure it actually got set, though.

Tycho

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Tycho Andersen <
> tycho.andersen at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 03:14:31PM +0100, Fabrizio Furnari wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've just seen that in the latest RC developers added the possibility to
> > > specify the LV size when creating new containers.
> > > I've updated to 2.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1 on my Ubuntu box
> > but
> > > when I try for example:
> > >
> > > $ export LXD_LVM_LVSIZE="1GiB"
> > > $ lxc launch 0d07f11f3f2a testcontainer
> > > $ lvdisplay
> > >
> > /dev/vg0/0d07f11f3f2a0804f501967d278d72a8122b1ec49f01aae4483a41fd9fb546f3 |
> > > grep Size
> > >
> > >   LV Size                10.00 GiB
> > >
> > > Still uses the default value. What I have to do to set it?
> >
> > It needs to be set in LXD's environment, not the client's.
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