Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] storage: Don't delete Ploop volumes twice
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:41:11AM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:27:40PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>When reinitializing Ploop volumes we also went through the rutine of the
>normal wipe, effectively removing the root.hds file twice.
The file was wiped with the selected algorithm first (without deletion),
then reinitialized to make sure you can delete it via libvirt later.
You're right, I missed that what I was describing only happened with
VIR_STORAGE_VOL_WIPE_ALG_ZERO. Anyway since the description for
vol-wipe is:
"Ensure data previously on a volume is not accessible to future reads"
wiping algorithm does not really make sense for file-based storage.
That's kind of the whole point of this series.
We could get rid of the reinitialization if we make sure libvirt can
operate on the volume (after wiping, pretty much only delete makes
sense), but removing the actual wiping is wrong.
Jan
> Since we'll
>hopefully add support for other formats as well, split the function with
>a switch into which we can cleanly add formats in the future.
>
>Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com>
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> src/storage/storage_backend.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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