[sheepdog-users] About New Futures

Valerio Pachera sirio81 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 9 17:30:35 CEST 2013


2013/8/9 MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka at gmail.com>:
> I pushed the patch to the master.  It's available now.

I notice now that the patch has been written only 6 hours ago! ;-)

> Maybe, you misunderstood something I wrote.  Basically, it's difficult
> for block device storage to know that which blocks are not used by
> guest file system.

I found the discussion, but it was with Yuan.
The object was 'vdi and dynamic allocation'

2012/12/14 Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>:
> This is similar to linux file punch holes to safe disk space.
> Okay, "optimize" is indeed a better wording. let's firstly implement a
> mechanism to optimize the underlying storage allocation via 'collie vdi
> optimize'. This feature is in the plan.

I don't consider this an important future but I was curious to know if
was already present.

Thank you.



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