[pve-devel] Sparse clone/move over a thin LVM ?

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

also wolfgang has added his zeroinit filter to qemu-img command some time ago,
so it should work.


        push @$cmd, '/usr/bin/qemu-img', 'convert', '-t', 'writeback', '-p', '-n';
        push @$cmd, '-s', $snapname if($snapname && $src_format eq "qcow2");
        push @$cmd, '-f', $src_format, '-O', $dst_format, $src_path;
        if ($is_zero_initialized) {
            push @$cmd, "zeroinit:$dst_path";
        } else {
            push @$cmd, $dst_path;
        }




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De: "aderumier" <aderumier at odiso.com>
À: "dietmar" <dietmar at proxmox.com>, "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Envoyé: Jeudi 28 Juillet 2016 06:52:39
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] Sparse clone/move over a thin LVM ?

>>Why not fix qemu-img instead? 

This is strange, I am pretty sure that qemu-img was skipping zero writes 


" '-S' indicates the consecutive number of bytes (defaults to 4k) that must\n" 
" contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during\n" 
" conversion. If the number of bytes is 0, the source will not be scanned for\n" 
" unallocated or zero sectors, and the destination image will always be\n" 
" fully allocated\n" 

it should be sparse by default, until we setup "-S 0" 



----- Mail original ----- 
De: "dietmar" <dietmar at proxmox.com> 
À: "Gilou" <contact+dev at gilouweb.com>, "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com> 
Envoyé: Jeudi 28 Juillet 2016 06:20:50 
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] Sparse clone/move over a thin LVM ? 

> So I tried it by hand using dd conv=sparse, which works fine... 
> I'm no expert at this, but could it be that we could move/clone 
> sparse/thin disks this way if the destination is indeed a newly created 
> LV (case for move/clone) ? 

Why not fix qemu-img instead? 

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