[elbe-devel] Disk space leaks from the initvm

[Torben Hohn]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:10:25AM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote:
> 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.

done..
https://github.com/Linutronix/elbe/issues/95


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