On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 04:50:31PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Friday, 12 August 2016 10:37:29 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This reverts the change made for RHBZ#1168144.  The warning is now
> > always displayed.
> > 
> > It would be nice to make the warning actionable, but there is not a
> > lot that end users can do since fstrim is such a complex topic
> > interacting with all filesystem and storage layers.
> > ---
> >  v2v/v2v.ml | 6 +-----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/v2v/v2v.ml b/v2v/v2v.ml
> > index e221f29..8365aae 100644
> > --- a/v2v/v2v.ml
> > +++ b/v2v/v2v.ml
> > @@ -397,11 +397,7 @@ and do_fstrim g inspect =
> >        if mounted then (
> >          try g#fstrim "/"
> >          with G.Error msg ->
> > -          (* Only emit this warning when debugging, because otherwise
> > -           * it causes distress (RHBZ#1168144).
> > -           *)
> > -          if verbose () then
> > -            warning (f_"%s (ignored)") msg
> > +          warning (f_"fstrim on guest filesystem %s failed.  This may mean 
> > that conversion takes longer than normal.  Usually you can ignore this as 
> > fstrim is just an optimization.  Not all filesystems support trimming, and 
> > it can depend on specific details of the filesystem, alignment and backing 
> > storage.  Original message: %s") dev msg
> >        )
> 
> The idea is OK, but the message a bit too long perhaps? I'd keep the
> warning short here, and add the longer bit in an own paragraph in the
> manual.

I despair that no one reads the manual ...

Rich.

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