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Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH storage 1/1] fix #3580: plugins: make
 preallocation mode selectable for qcow2 and raw images
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Am 08.09.21 um 10:11 schrieb alexandre derumier:
> Hi,
> it can be done too with ceph rbd with "rbd create ... –thick-provision"
> 

Hi,
there also is the 'sparse' storage config option (currently only used 
for ZFS plugins). If there is only thick or thin, re-using that one is 
probably nicer, because the newly proposed preallocation option seems to 
be closely tied to qemu-img.

> Le lundi 06 septembre 2021 à 15:15 +0200, Lorenz Stechauner a écrit :
>> the plugins for file based storages
>>   * BTRFS
>>   * CIFS
>>   * Dir
>>   * Glusterfs
>>   * NFS
>> now allow the option 'preallocation'.
>>
>> 'preallocation' can have four values:
>>   * default
>>   * off
>>   * metadata
>>   * falloc
>>   * full
>> see man pages for `qemu-img` for what these mean exactly. [0]
>>
>> the defualt value was chosen to be
>>   * qcow2: metadata (as previously)
>>   * raw: off (I was unable to find any documentation on this, so
>>      could only test this and found, that 'off' was the most
>>      fitting.)
>>
>> when using 'metadata' as preallocation mode, for raw images 'off'
>> is used.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/images.html#disk-image-file-formats
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lorenz Stechauner <l.stechauner@proxmox.com>
>> ---
>>   PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm     |  1 +
>>   PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm      |  1 +
>>   PVE/Storage/DirPlugin.pm       |  1 +
>>   PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm |  4 ++-
>>   PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm       |  1 +
>>   PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm          | 46
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
>> index fe42082..31a2954 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
>> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ sub options {
>>          is_mountpoint => { optional => 1 },
>>          nocow => { optional => 1 },
>>          mkdir => { optional => 1 },
>> +       preallocation => { optional => 1 },
>>          # TODO: The new variant of mkdir with  `populate` vs
>> `create`...
>>       };
>>   }
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
>> index 0221069..2d94413 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/CIFSPlugin.pm
>> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ sub options {
>>          smbversion => { optional => 1},
>>          mkdir => { optional => 1 },
>>          bwlimit => { optional => 1 },
>> +       preallocation => { optional => 1 },
>>       };
>>   }
>>   
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/DirPlugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/DirPlugin.pm
>> index 2267f11..3eeec98 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/DirPlugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/DirPlugin.pm
>> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ sub options {
>>          mkdir => { optional => 1 },
>>          is_mountpoint => { optional => 1 },
>>          bwlimit => { optional => 1 },
>> +       preallocation => { optional => 1 },
>>      };
>>   }
>>   
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
>> b/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
>> index ea4df82..d8d2b88 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
>> @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ sub options {
>>          format => { optional => 1 },
>>          mkdir => { optional => 1 },
>>          bwlimit => { optional => 1 },
>> +       preallocation => { optional => 1 },
>>       };
>>   }
>>   
>> @@ -260,7 +261,8 @@ sub alloc_image {
>>   
>>       my $cmd = ['/usr/bin/qemu-img', 'create'];
>>   
>> -    push @$cmd, '-o', 'preallocation=metadata' if $fmt eq 'qcow2';
>> +    my $prealloc_opt =
>> PVE::Storage::Plugin::preallocation_cmd_option($scfg, $fmt);
>> +    push @$cmd, '-o', $prealloc_opt if defined($prealloc_opt);
>>   
>>       push @$cmd, '-f', $fmt, $volumepath, "${size}K";
>>   
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
>> index 39bf15a..21b288a 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/NFSPlugin.pm
>> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ sub options {
>>          format => { optional => 1 },
>>          mkdir => { optional => 1 },
>>          bwlimit => { optional => 1 },
>> +       preallocation => { optional => 1 },
>>       };
>>   }
>>   
>> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
>> index b1865cb..4924525 100644
>> --- a/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm
>> @@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ our @SHARED_STORAGE = (
>>       'pbs',
>>   );
>>   
>> +our $QCOW2_PREALLOCATION = {
>> +    off => 1,
>> +    metadata => 1,
>> +    falloc => 1,
>> +    full => 1,
>> +};
>> +
>> +our $RAW_PREALLOCATION = {
>> +    off => 1,
>> +    falloc => 1,
>> +    full => 1,
>> +};
>> +
>>   our $MAX_VOLUMES_PER_GUEST = 1024;
>>   
>>   cfs_register_file ('storage.cfg',
>> @@ -150,6 +163,11 @@ my $defaultData = {
>>              type => 'string', format => 'pve-storage-format',
>>              optional => 1,
>>          },
>> +       preallocation => {
>> +           description => "Preallocation mode for raw and qcow2
>> images.",
>> +           type => 'string', enum => ['default', 'off', 'metadata',
>> 'falloc', 'full'],
>> +           optional => 1,
>> +       },
>>       },
>>   };
>>   
>> @@ -762,7 +780,8 @@ sub alloc_image {
>>       } else {
>>          my $cmd = ['/usr/bin/qemu-img', 'create'];
>>   
>> -       push @$cmd, '-o', 'preallocation=metadata' if $fmt eq
>> 'qcow2';
>> +       my $prealloc_opt = preallocation_cmd_option($scfg, $fmt);
>> +       push @$cmd, '-o', $prealloc_opt if defined($prealloc_opt);
>>   
>>          push @$cmd, '-f', $fmt, $path, "${size}K";
>>   
>> @@ -1484,4 +1503,29 @@ sub volume_import_formats {
>>       return ();
>>   }
>>   
>> +sub preallocation_cmd_option {
>> +    my ($scfg, $fmt) = @_;
>> +
>> +    my $prealloc = $scfg->{preallocation};
>> +
>> +    $prealloc = undef if $prealloc eq 'default';
>> +
>> +    if ($fmt eq 'qcow2') {
>> +       $prealloc = $prealloc // 'metadata';
>> +
>> +       die "preallocation mode '$prealloc' not supported by format
>> '$fmt'\n" if !$QCOW2_PREALLOCATION->{$prealloc};
>> +
>> +       return "preallocation=$prealloc";
>> +    } elsif ($fmt eq 'raw') {
>> +       $prealloc = $prealloc // 'off';
>> +       $prealloc = 'off' if $prealloc eq 'metadata';
>> +
>> +       die "preallocation mode '$prealloc' not supported by format
>> '$fmt'\n" if !$RAW_PREALLOCATION->{$prealloc};
>> +
>> +       return "preallocation=$prealloc";
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    return undef;
>> +}
>> +
>>   1;
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