Ploop image consists of directory with two files: ploop image itself,
called root.hds and DiskDescriptor.xml that contains information about
ploop device: https://openvz.org/Ploop/format.
Such volume are difficult to manipulate in terms of existing volume types
because they are neither a single files nor a directory.
This patch introduces new volume type - ploop. This volume type is used
by ploop volume's exclusively.
Signed-off-by: Olga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This new algorithm adds support for wiping volumes using TRIM.
It does not overwrite all the data in a volume, but it tells the
backing storage pool/driver that all bytes in a volume can be
discarded.
It depends on the backing storage pool how this is handled.
A SCSI backend might send UNMAP commands to remove all data present
on a LUN.
A Ceph backend might use rbd_discard() to instruct the Ceph cluster
that all data on that RBD volume can be discarded.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830056
Add flags handling to the virStoragePoolCreate and virStoragePoolCreateXML
API's which will allow the caller to provide the capability for the storage
pool create API's to also perform a pool build during creation rather than
requiring the additional buildPool step. This will allow transient pools
to be defined, built, and started.
The new flags are:
* VIR_STORAGE_POOL_CREATE_WITH_BUILD
Perform buildPool without any flags passed.
* VIR_STORAGE_POOL_CREATE_WITH_BUILD_OVERWRITE
Perform buildPool using VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_OVERWRITE flag.
* VIR_STORAGE_POOL_CREATE_WITH_BUILD_NO_OVERWRITE
Perform buildPool using VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_NO_OVERWRITE flag.
It is up to the backend to handle the processing of build flags. The
overwrite and no-overwrite flags are mutually exclusive.
NB:
This patch is loosely based upon code originally authored by Osier
Yang that were not reviewed and pushed, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg01328.html
When a RBD volume has snapshots it can not be removed.
This patch introduces a new flag to force volume removal,
VIR_STORAGE_VOL_DELETE_WITH_SNAPSHOTS.
With this flag any existing snapshots will be removed prior to
removing the volume.
No existing mechanism in libvirt allowed us to pass such information,
so that's why a new flag was introduced.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
When creating a RAW file, we don't take advantage
of clone of btrfs.
Add a VIR_STORAGE_VOL_CREATE_REFLINK flag to request
a reflink copy.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This changes the display from:
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storages
to
libvirt-storage: APIs for management of storage pools and volumes
In making that change I expected my build tree html output to be
regenerated; however, it wasn't because the dependency for the separated
libvirt-storage.h wasn't there. It was only present for libvirt.h.in
So I added each in the order displayed on the docs/html/index.html page
Create a new libvirt-storage.h file to hold the public
API definitions for the virStorage/Vol type. This header
file is not self-contained, so applications will not directly
include it. They will continue to #include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
