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On 09/07/2012 05:28 AM, Lloyd Dewolf wrote:
> Is there a blueprint for having nova clean up backing files that are
> no longer in use?
> 
> Do people currently have a scripted workaround to clean these up when
> throwing instances of a lot of different images at a testing
> environment?

Can I assume you're using libvirt? If so, Essex implemented image cache
management, which does what you want here. There's no scripting
required, its built in.

Knobs you might want to tune for a test environment are:

remove_unused_base_images (should be True)

remove_unused_resized_minimum_age_seconds (defaults to 3600 seconds,
perhaps make this lower?)

remove_unused_original_minimum_age_seconds (defaults to 24 * 3600
seconds, make this lower)

checksum_base_images (set this to false to reduce filesystem IO if
you're churning base files a lot)

image_cache_manager_interval(defaults to 40 ticks, set this lower to
make the cleaner run more frequently)

Hope this helps.

Mikal