[libvirt] [PATCH v2] storage: Attempt to refresh volume after successful wipe volume

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Dec 17 12:41:34 UTC 2015



On 12/15/2015 03:03 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270709
> 
> When a volume wipe is successful, perform a volume refresh afterwards to
> update any volume data that may be used in future volume commands, such as
> volume resize.  For a raw file volume, a wipe could truncate the file and
> a followup volume resize the capacity may fail because the volume target
> allocation isn't updated to reflect the wipe activity.
> 
> Since the documentation doesn't mention this side effect of the zero
> algorithm for a raw file volume, update the various documentation to
> describe the results.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  v1:
>  http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00085.html
> 
>  Changes since v1:
>    * Use the preferred call format from review
>    * Cause error if refreshVol fails
>    * Add wording to docs regarding zero wipe algorithm and truncating
>      the raw file.
> 
>  src/libvirt-storage.c        | 9 +++++++--
>  src/storage/storage_driver.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  tools/virsh.pod              | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

As requested reviewed Jan's series, saw his push, adjusted this to just
be the storage_driver.c changes, and pushed.

Tks

John




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