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authorZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2023-04-24 23:58:21 +0200
committerZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>2023-04-25 00:12:31 +0200
commit8947964f10499cf286985da37973cdbcaff9d7f1 (patch)
tree63bf3fe9b993c4c5870b69a25aee8c590f75ad84
parent31cfcf7ce9aab5dd16ba15e48bfe33be849fad4c (diff)
downloadlvm2-8947964f10499cf286985da37973cdbcaff9d7f1.tar.gz
wipe_lv: use zeroing ioctl only for large sizes
There is no easy way to detect, whether device supports zeroing, and kernel also zeroes device when it's not directly supported, but with extra message: operation not supported error, dev X, sector Y op 0x9:(WRITE_ZEROES)... So to avoid generating such message with every 'lvcreate', use for zeroing of upto 8K just standard write of zeroed page. (maybe we can go with even larger sizes).
-rw-r--r--lib/metadata/lv_manip.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/metadata/lv_manip.c b/lib/metadata/lv_manip.c
index 2a4e0e88a..762a65785 100644
--- a/lib/metadata/lv_manip.c
+++ b/lib/metadata/lv_manip.c
@@ -8718,7 +8718,7 @@ int wipe_lv(struct logical_volume *lv, struct wipe_params wp)
display_lvname(lv), wp.zero_value);
#ifdef HAVE_BLKZEROOUT
- if (!test_mode() && !wp.zero_value) {
+ if (!test_mode() && !wp.zero_value && (zero_sectors > 16)) {
/* TODO: maybe integrate with bcache_zero_set() */
const uint64_t end = zero_sectors << SECTOR_SHIFT;
uint64_t range[2] = { 0, 1024 * 1024 }; /* zeroing with 1M steps (for better ^C support) */