Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 2:48 PM Robbie Harwood
<rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> "John M. Harris Jr" <johnmh(a)splentity.com> writes:
>> On Friday, December 20, 2019 10:59:52 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> Issuing the command once per week harms no one
>>
>> Based on what's actual in the Change proposal, this is not the case.
>>
>> Even if this goes through, in my opinion, it should only affect the
>> GNOME Spin, or perhaps even "all graphical" spins at most.
>
> No? This is extremely useful for cloud environments - maybe the most
> useful. It allows VM hosts to reclaim and reuse empty disk space;
> otherwise, the disk images just bloat to their maximum allowed size.
Its most useful for the cloud *providers*, not the cloud clients. For
the clients, getting the AWS space pre-allocated form EBS is often a
notable performance improvement, and restoring it to AWS saves AWS
resources. Not the client system performance.
Sure, but in many cases the client is also the provider. Consider
running kvm on a laptop (which I and many others do for work...) - you'd
really like the disk space back you're not using, rather than each VM
taking 10-20G it doesn't need. I end up having to edit every VM
configuration in two places after each install/provision in order to get
that behavior - that's not reasonable.
Thanks,
--Robbie