On 17-08-21 10:20:11, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 03:43:22PM +1000, Michael Still 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. > > To find this out is part science and part guesswork. > > Starting with: > https://github.com/openstack/requirements#finding-distro-status > > I get the following: > > Xenial: [ 8.25 ] > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=coreutils&searchon=names&suite=xenial-updates§ion=all > Fedora: [ 8.27 ] > https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/coreutils Stable on gentoo is 8.25 though, but that still matches xenial. > Gentoo: [ 8.27 ] > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/coreutils > RHEL7 - Centos 7: [ 8.22 ] > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/coreutils-8.22-18.el7.x86_64.rpm > opensuse: [ No idea ] > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils > But pages like: > https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-ru-20130546-1.html > imply that 8.12 is still a thing in SLES-11 > > So while we support SLES 11 I don't think we can make that assumption. > Which of course begs the follow-up question which distros do we care > about. > > Yours Tony. > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20170820/0695cead/attachment.sig>