From 6f02e33c6fbf2f14ba11ef07cb078ad6f6b2fea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:24:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sparsify: Document that virt-sparsify doesn't work well on multi-disk VMs. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/887826 --- sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod index ba19d1d82..b6c4cce9d 100644 --- a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod +++ b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ Virt-sparsify can also convert between some disk formats, for example converting a raw disk image to a thin-provisioned qcow2 image. Virt-sparsify can operate on any disk image, not just ones from -virtual machines. If a virtual machine has more than one attached -disk, you must sparsify each one separately. +virtual machines. However if a virtual machine has multiple disks +and uses volume management, then virt-sparsify will work but not be +very effective (L). =head2 IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SPARSE OUTPUT IMAGES