[elbe-devel] Disk space leaks from the initvm

Manuel Traut manuel.traut at linutronix.de
Thu Mar 23 09:10:25 CET 2017


Hi Torben,

> Well, we could still consider this a leakage.
> The virtio-scsi drivers seem to support trim now.
> And we might be able to give back freed blocks to host filesystem.
> 
> We might want to investigate this.
> 
> https://chrisirwin.ca/posts/discard-with-kvm/
> http://dustymabe.com/2013/06/11/recover-space-from-vm-disk-images-by-using-discardfstrim/

can you create a github issue as feature request for this. Just to ensure that
the idea doesn't get lost.

Thanks,

  Manuel




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