Daniel filed a bug for it (https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1022511), thanks Daniel!
So go to Lanuchpad and confirm the bug if it affects you too. Regards, Heber On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Heber Dijks wrote: > > When terminating a volume, openstack default overwrites the complete > volume > > with zero’s for security reasons. This can take a long time, especially > > with large volumes. > > > > If security isn’t an issue in your environment, you can speed-up deletion > > to only overwrite the first 1GB with zero’s, which will then delete only > > the mbr, partition table and the first part of the filesystem. > > > > See this post ( > > > https://dijks.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/how-to-speedup-removal-of-a-volume/ > ) > > for a brief tutorial to speed-up removal of a volume if security isn't an > > issue. > > On the flipside if security /is/ your concern, then you may well consider > fill-with-zeros to be insufficient. The ability to invoke the 'scrub' > command, would be quite desirable. It sounds like Nova really ought to > have this be all configurable, to choose between none, zeros, or one of > the many 'scrub' algorithms. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/:| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org:| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/:| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc:| >
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