>
> That said, I'm not sure if this is a valid concern since we don't have such
> CSI functions yet. So input from folks would be very welcome!


FYI, I just opened an issue in the CSI community:
https://github.com/container-storage-interface/spec/issues/212

- Jie

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Chun-Hung Hsiao <chhs...@mesosphere.io>
wrote:

> Thanks Zhitao for the summary. My thoughts are:
>
> For `SHRINK_VOLUME`, I feel option 2 is appropriate, as it gives the
> component that actually applies the operation to decide what the resulting
> free disk space would become. Option 3 is also acceptable.
>
> For `GROW_VOLUME`, I actually prefer option 1 more, and I think it can
> handle more cases, including CSI volumes. To be more concrete, here is a
> prototype I would suggest:
> ```
> message GrowVolume {
>   Resource volume = 1;
>   Resource addition = 2;
> }
> ```
> Potentially, we may let a framework to grow `volume` with either an
> existing `PATH` volume or a `RAW` storage pool. Neither option 2 nor 3 can
> provide such functionality, because it cannot specify where the extra space
> comes from.
>
> That said, I'm not sure if this is a valid concern since we don't have such
> CSI functions yet. So input from folks would be very welcome!
>
> On Mar 16, 2018 11:12 AM, "Zhitao Li" <zhitaoli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Chun, Greg, Gastón and I are working on supporting resizing of persistent
> volume[1]. See [2] for the design doc in length.
>
> The proposed new offer operation and corresponding operator API are in
>  following two patches:
>
> https://reviews.apache.org/r/66049/
> https://reviews.apache.org/r/66052
>
> Our intention is to eventually support resizing of not only persistent
> volumes, but also CSI volumes[3] introduced after Mesos 1.5 in the same set
> of API, so we are declaring the API as experimental in its first release
> version.
>
> We also want to make sure the API is reasonable to use to framework authors
> and operators.
>
> Considering the above, both APIs need to include the original volume as
> resource. Some alternatives on extra fields:
> 1) size difference in Resource format: this may not be applicable in CSI
> volume;
> 2) size difference in Scalar value: this can be applicable in both CSI and
> persistent volume case, since there is always a quantitive difference. We
> can add extra CSI only fields once the spec is defined;
> 3) target volume in `Resource` format: this may not be possible for any CSI
> volume because the implementation could change certain metadata, so we did
> not take this approach.
>
> Therefore, we are taking option 2) in current patches.
>
> Please let me know what you think. Thanks.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4965
> [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z16okNG8mlf2eA6NyW_PUmBfNFs_
> 6EOaPzPtwYNVQUQ/edit#
> [3] https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/docs/csi.md
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Zhitao Li
>

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