similar to: Intent to retire: zerofree

Hello Richard, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. I'm happy to take zerofree. Regards, Robert

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing features that it doesn't know > > about. > > > > It is

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing features that it doesn't know > about. > > It is for these reasons that I don't think you should use this package > and I intend to retire

Here's a fun one: + guestfish -N test-virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.img=fs:vfat exit + virt-sparsify --in-place test-virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.img + tee test-virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.log [ 2.4] Trimming /dev/sda1 [ 7.5] Sparsify in-place operation completed with no errors + grep 'warning:.*fstrim'

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:41:01PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > Here's a fun one: > > > > + guestfish -N test-virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.img=fs:vfat exit > > + virt-sparsify --in-place test-virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.img > > + tee

[Let's discuss this upstream] On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:18:48PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > I'm missing something here - what will happen to the tree structure? > Will we lose it? So essentially it performs a merge? In copying mode: virt-sparsify disk1 disk2 creates an overlay on top of disk1, writes zeroes to the overlay in the parts of disk1 which are not used (disk1 is not

This addresses the feedback on v1 here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-September/msg00023.html Rich.

Fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364347

Hi- Is it safe to use the zerofree utility on an ext4 partition inside an LVM with guestfish? I know zerofree works on ext4, but I am unsure about LVM. The info page uses the syntax "zerofree <device>", so using the info page example, could I (safely) do something like the following? $ guestfish Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for

Hi all, Can I ask if zerofree or resize2fs could also be applicable to ext4? Guestfish help of these two commands indicates that they are applicable to ext2/3. But ext4 is not covered in the help. However, I have tested these two commands in my Fedora 12 laptop, and it seems that both commands work well with ext4. So I don't quite understand why the help of these two commands only mention

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > [Let's discuss this upstream] > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:18:48PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > > I'm missing something here - what will happen to the tree structure? > > Will we lose it? So essentially it performs a merge? > > In copying mode: > > virt-sparsify disk1

This set of patches: - Adds new APIs to support discard in libguestfs. - Adds discard support to virt-format. - Adds discard support to virt-sysprep. - Implements virt-sparsify --in-place. This is now working, after fixing the rather stupid bug in fstrim. I've pushed the ones which were ACKed previously + the fstrim fix. Rich.

Since Linux commit f663b5b38fff trimming vfat is now supported by Linux. This broke the test which assumed it was not supported. Use another filesystem (minix) which does not support trimming instead. Thanks: Daniel P. Berrangé and Pino Toscano. --- ...virt-sparsify-in-place-fstrim-unsupported.sh | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git

This still isn't working at the moment. See: http://marc.info/?t=139457409300003&r=1&w=2 This set of patches: - Adds new APIs to support discard in libguestfs. - Adds discard support to virt-format. - Adds discard support to virt-sysprep. - Implements virt-sparsify --in-place. Rich.

This patch is easier to read if you use the 'git show -w' option. Also observe that: fun a -> ( fun () -> (* code *) ) (ie. returning a closure) is identical to: fun a () -> (* code *) Rich.

Hi! This question emerged during testing of oVirt sparsify integration. oVirt now is able to run virt-sparsify on VM disks. But virt-sparsify seems to have no effect on iSCSI disks. Does virt-sparsify work on iSCSI disks? Maybe in sum situation, with some configuration of iSCSI server, with some specific virt-sparsify options? Shmuel

This reverts the change made for RHBZ#1168144. The warning is now always displayed. It would be nice to make the warning actionable, but there is not a lot that end users can do since fstrim is such a complex topic interacting with all filesystem and storage layers. --- v2v/v2v.ml | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/v2v/v2v.ml b/v2v/v2v.ml index

Assuming the VM is not running, and we have a base (raw, sparse) with a snapshot (qcow2) on top of it. Is there any issue with running virt-sparsify on the base image? I assume deleted blocks in the base can be sparsified, since they are either still deleted on the snap (which is fine) or were written in the snap (which is fine either and does not change or matter for the base image). Can I assume

Hi! I need to convert a KVM virtual machine from LVM to a qcow2 image, and wonder if this is the best way to do it (*1): [$] qemu-img convert -O qcow2 /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ /var/lib/libvirt/images/image_name.qcow2 If this is the best way to do this, will this keep the information on: /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ untouched? Thanks, and please point me towards another mailing list if this it not right

As the minimum block size to discard in qcow2 is 64K, any point in fstrimming smaller contiguous blocks? TIA, Y.