Re: Zeroing out rbd image or volume

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On 5/12/20 1:54 PM, Paul Emmerich wrote:
> And many hypervisors will turn writing zeroes into an unmap/trim (qemu
> detect-zeroes=unmap), so running trim on the entire empty disk is often the
> same as writing zeroes.
> So +1 for encryption being the proper way here
> 

+1

And to add to this: No, a newly created RBD image will never have 'left
over' bits and bytes from a previous RBD image.

I had to explain this multiple times to people which were used to old
(i)SCSI setups where partitions could have leftover data from a
previously created LUN.

With RBD this won't happen.

Wido

> 
> Paul
> 
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