On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 7:59 PM <andreas_nikifo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I see, weird that i couldn't find that bug report with google, even after > spending so much time searching info on this topic. > > So what is the preferred method of freeing up space now, since sparsifying > is disabled? > Sparsify-image is not disabled, it can still be invoked on raw volumes. > > Does enabling "discard" for VM disk take care of freeing up used space > taken by deleted files on a thin provisioned disk? > I have it enabled on few of my testvms but have not seen it have any > effect, need to read up on that feature, only used sparsify previously for > this operation. > Yeah, pass-discard could be an option if your underlying storage supports it. You can read more about it in the original feature page: https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/pass-discard-from-guest-to-underlying-storage.html But as I previously wrote, sparsifying the image without going through ovirt-engine (but let's say, with the VDSM API) is also an option if you don't care about the reduction in size not being reflect in oVirt > _______________________________________________ > 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/7JXHY6YQW6OCXTQ7QDFMGLDXDG6KOEWU/ >
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