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From: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: [pve-devel] applied: [PATCH docs 1/1] storage: lvm: expand on description of saferemove option
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1704793089.szo3720zta.astroid@yuna.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231207161038.90626-3-f.ebner@proxmox.com>

On December 7, 2023 5:10 pm, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> mentioning why zeroing-out might be necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  pve-storage-lvm.adoc | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/pve-storage-lvm.adoc b/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
> index 917d8fb..cff5d3e 100644
> --- a/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
> +++ b/pve-storage-lvm.adoc
> @@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ on a remote iSCSI server.
>  `saferemove`::
>  
>  Zero-out data when removing LVs. When removing a volume, this makes
> -sure that all data gets erased.
> +sure that all data gets erased and cannot be accessed by other LVs
> +created later (which happen to be assigned the same physical extents).
> +This is a costly operation, but may be required as a security measure
> +in certain environments.
>  
>  `saferemove_throughput`::
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-09  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-07 16:10 [pve-devel] [RFC manager/docs] lvm: better expose/explain " Fiona Ebner
2023-12-07 16:10 ` [pve-devel] [RFC manager 1/1] ui: lvm: expose saferemove setting Fiona Ebner
2024-01-09  9:49   ` Fabian Grünbichler
2023-12-07 16:10 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH docs 1/1] storage: lvm: expand on description of saferemove option Fiona Ebner
2024-01-09  9:38   ` Fabian Grünbichler [this message]

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