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Hi!

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:50 PM Radosław Piliszek <
radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dears,
>
> I have a question regarding the default behaviour of Ironic Python
> Agent - it seems that each deploy causes the entire target disk to be
> overwritten. I have noticed this after replacing disks with larger
> ones, the deployment process started taking considerably longer and I
> observed that each sector is rewritten on the target device.
> Is that expected? Can I somehow avoid it?
>

I think we only overwrite metadata on the target disk, not zero it. Are you
sure it's not cleaning?

Dmitry


> I am using whole-disk, qcow2 images that are much smaller than the
> disk size (even in raw form).
> I am running Ironic Wallaby.
> The deployment method is direct.
>
> Kind regards,
> -yoctozepto
>
>

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