On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 2:51 PM <christian.pea...@gmx.de> wrote: > > When creating a snapshot, the volume gets two lv extents (2GB) . But after > deleting the snapshot, the extents are kept and with every Snapshot creation > the volume size increases. > This is really annoying, especially when using snapshot for nightly backup. > we are using oVirt 4.3.10 and we can't upgrade to 4.4 > > I have read that to shrink the volume the disk reduce command is what helps > here, but the rest api documentation says, that this is only applicable while > vm is not running. crazy as i am, i have called the reduce command while the > vm was running, and it seemed to work. the volume has shrunk and the vm > didn't crash. it's actually blocked only for the active volume of a running VM, I suppose you did not run it on the active volume? but it seems like the documentation needs to be fixed
> But is it save to do so? and why isn't the reduce command is called after > deletion of a snapshot? It actually is called, except when the active layer participates in the live merge (or the SD isn't block SD) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/HWR6O46TQXLC4PO7JYVL3XGZ2RJD6MLW/
