[libvirt] [RFC] Usage about 'virsh vol-wipe vol_name'

harryxiyou harryxiyou at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 06:33:21 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Osier Yang <jyang at redhat.com> wrote:
[...]

> The command is there, and the docs is there too. So you already had the
> guide, why not to try it?
>

Thanks, i will.

>
>>
>> Could anyone please give me some suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>>
>>> However, if users just want to wipe portions data of this volume, which
>>> command(interface) of libvirt could finish?
>
>
> I didn't try, but I think vol-upload can do the work, though it's not that
> straightforward. And I think having an API to wipe part of volume data
> explicitly can be useful, it can be acheived, though I'm not sure if scrub
> support to wipe part of the data, for a normal wiping without the scrub's
> algrithoms, it's already implemented by helper storageWipeExtent, and
> can be easily exposed as a public API.
>

Maybe this is deserved for us to achieve ;-)


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Thanks
Harry Wei




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