Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Enable fstrim.timer by default

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:06 AM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 2:48 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> "John M. Harris Jr" <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

By default, GNOME Boxes and virt-manager VM's, do not enable block
device discards. So this feature is a 'no op' in that case. And also
fstrim.service won't run in a container. I've updated the feature to
reflect these two things.

I'm not certain what the default should be for VMs. I really only ever
use libvirt managed qemu-kvm these days, so I'm also not sure what the
defaults are elsewhere for comparison.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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