Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/lvm-clear-option.

Description:

To increase the performance of any instances I've tested in combination with libvirt and kvm some cases. KVM + Block devices seems to be the fastest but I've found a show stopper. Every time if i delete an instance nova will do a dd on the deleted volume and this takes a long time and consume a lot of power.

I've found in the code (https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/utils.py#L350) a comment to make this configurable as by cinder volumes (scure delete). This should be done otherwise is lvm on a compute in a production system in my cases not usable.

Cheers
Heiko


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