v2v: Make fstrim warning clearer (RHBZ#1366456).

This reverts the change made for RHBZ#1168144.  The warning is now
always displayed.

It would be nice to make the warning actionable, but there is not a
lot that end users can do since fstrim is such a complex topic
interacting with all filesystem and storage layers.
This commit is contained in:
Richard W.M. Jones
2016-08-12 10:32:26 +01:00
parent d33e28c988
commit 66816e1133
2 changed files with 27 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -397,11 +397,7 @@ and do_fstrim g inspect =
if mounted then (
try g#fstrim "/"
with G.Error msg ->
(* Only emit this warning when debugging, because otherwise
* it causes distress (RHBZ#1168144).
*)
if verbose () then
warning (f_"%s (ignored)") msg
warning (f_"fstrim on guest filesystem %s failed. Usually you can ignore this message. To find out more read \"Trimming\" in virt-v2v(1).\n\nOriginal message: %s") dev msg
)
) fses

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@@ -1611,6 +1611,32 @@ one CPU core and between 512 MB and 1 GB of RAM per running instance.
Virt-v2v can be run in a virtual machine.
=head2 Trimming
Virt-v2v attempts to optimize the speed of conversion by ignoring
guest filesystem data which is not used. This would include unused
filesystem blocks, blocks containing zeroes, and deleted files.
To do this, virt-v2v issues a non-destructive L<fstrim(8)> operation.
As this happens to an overlay placed over the guest data, it does
B<not> affect the source in any way.
If this fstrim operation fails, you will see a warning, but virt-v2v
will continue anyway. It may run more slowly (in some cases much more
slowly), because it is copying the unused parts of the disk.
Unfortunately support for fstrim is not universal, and it also depends
on specific details of the filesystem, partition alignment, and
backing storage. As an example, NTFS filesystems cannot be fstrimmed
if they occupy a partition which is not aligned to the underlying
storage. That was the default on Windows before Vista. As another
example, VFAT filesystems (used by UEFI guests) cannot be trimmed at
all.
fstrim support in the Linux kernel is improving gradually, so over
time some of these restrictions will be lifted and virt-v2v will work
faster.
=head1 POST-CONVERSION TASKS
=head2 Guest network configuration