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On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:29 AM Radosław Piliszek <
radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 09:15, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Nope, the cleaning process is quick, this is on deploy.
> The command that does the entire overwrite is qemu-img convert from IPA.
> I wonder if some semantics changed in the meantime.
> I am using Debian Buster (10) based images.
> So with this https://packages.debian.org/buster/qemu-utils


Ah, you may need this change then:
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ironic-lib/+/808993

Dmitry


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