[libvirt] [PATCH v2] storage: Document wiping formatted volume types

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 1 16:57:38 UTC 2016



On 08/01/2016 12:16 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> When wiping a volume we just rewrite all the data of the volume, not
> only the content.  Since format gets overridden, we need to recreate the
> volume.  However we can't do that for every possible format out there.
> Since it was only coded for the ploop volume type, let's document what
> might be the consequences instead of forbidding it for every other
> format out there.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868771
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
>  - Reworded according to John
> 
> v1:
>  - https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-August/msg00050.html
> 
> 
>  src/libvirt-storage.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

ACK (SFF)

John




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