volume/snapshots takes very long to delete
Bug #889299 reported by
Gaurav Gupta
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OpenStack Compute (nova) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Pádraig Brady |
Bug Description
I have a large number of snapshots created from a volume. These are COW snapshots so the actual disk space they take is not large, but when I try to delete them using the OSAPI, it takes a very long time to delete each one of them. The volumes and snapshots are based on LVM.
Looking at the code, nova-volumes clears the volume/snapshots using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/
tags: | added: canonistack |
Changed in nova: | |
assignee: | nobody → Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in nova: | |
milestone: | none → icehouse-3 |
Changed in nova: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in nova: | |
milestone: | icehouse-3 → 2014.1 |
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Yep, I've seen this, too. It would be great to speed this up, but it isn't clear how to do so.