Re: Running thin_trim before activating a thin pool

Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lvm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dne 29. 01. 22 v 21:09 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a):
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 08:42:21PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> Dne 29. 01. 22 v 19:52 Demi Marie Obenour napsal(a):
>>> Is it possible to configure LVM2 so that it runs thin_trim before it
>>> activates a thin pool?  Qubes OS currently runs blkdiscard on every thin
>>> volume before deleting it, which is slow and unreliable.  Would running
>>> thin_trim during system startup provide a better alternative?
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Nope there is currently no support from lvm2 side for this.
>> Feel free to open RFE.
> 
> Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048160
> 
> 

Thanks

Although your use-case Thinpool on top of VDO is not really a good plan and 
there is a good reason behind why lvm2 does not support this device stack 
directly (aka thin-pool data LV as VDO LV).
I'd say you are stepping on very very thin ice...

Also I assume you have already checked performance of discard on VDO, but I 
would not want to run this operation frequently on any larger volume...

Regards

Zdenek

_______________________________________________
linux-lvm mailing list
[email protected]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.