Specifically we could do something like this: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/495532 Michael On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote: > Hi, > > nova.virt.libvirt.storage.lvm.clear_volume() has a comment that we could > use shred to zero out volumes efficiently if we could assume that shred > 8.22 was in all our downstream distros [1]. shred 8.22 shipped in 2013 [2]. > > Can we assume that thing now? xenial appears to ship with 8.25 for > example. If so, we could drop a reasonably complicated caller of dd, and it > would make moving to privsep a tiny bit easier. > > Thanks, > Michael > > > 1: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/ > virt/libvirt/storage/lvm.py#n219 > 2: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7815 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20170820/60c12470/attachment.html>