Bug#1021341: vmdb2: missing dependency on zerofree

[Lars Wirzenius]

On Sat, 2023-11-11 at 10:30 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> I am adding a Recommends: on zerofree and will soon upload (and close
> thus bug). Michael: I understand your point, but given this is a
> design decision from our upstream author, I prefer adding a Cc: to
> Lars and ask him to consider switching from zerofree over to fstim,
> maybe he has reasons not to.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>-Gunnar


vmdb2 uses zerofree by default so that the generated image will compress to
be smaller. This is important for my own use cases.

If this isn't great for other use cases, one can avoid the zerofree by
adding `zerofree: false` to the `mount` step. See
 for details.

I'm happy to consider a patch to use fstrim instead of zerofree, but I'm
not likely to make one myself any time soon, sorry.

Bug#1021341: vmdb2: missing dependency on zerofree

[Gunnar Wolf]

I am adding a Recommends: on zerofree and will soon upload (and close
thus bug). Michael: I understand your point, but given this is a
design decision from our upstream author, I prefer adding a Cc: to
Lars and ask him to consider switching from zerofree over to fstim,
maybe he has reasons not to.

Greetings,

   -Gunnar


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