nova/nova/virt/disk
Lee Yarwood 23bd8f6263 libvirt: Report the allocated size of preallocated file based disks
At present the Libvirt driver can preallocate file based disks using the
fallocate command and importantly the `-n` option. This option allocates
blocks on the filesystem past the initial EOF of a given file:

```
$ touch test.img ; fallocate -n -l $(( 1024 * 1024 )) test.img
$ ll -lah test.img
-rw-rw-r--. 1 stack stack 0 Apr 16 13:28 test.img
$ du -h test.img
1.0M	test.img
```

This results in a miscalculation of the total disk overcommit for file
based (excluding ploop) disks as os.path.getsize is currently used to
determine the allocated size of these disks:

```
>>> import os
>>> os.path.getsize('test.img')
0
```

Using the above example the disk overcommit would be reported as 1.0M as
the disk appears empty yet will report a potential (virtual) size of 1.0M.

However as the required blocks have already been allocated on the
filesystem the host will report disk_available_least as missing an
additional 1.0M, essentially doubling the allocation for each disk.

To correct this the allocated size of file based (excluding ploop) disks
is reported using `disk_size` from the `qemu-img info` command. This
should ensure blocks allocated past the EOF of the file are taken into
account and correctly reported as allocated.

A future change should ultimately remove the use of the `-n` option with
fallocate, however as this would not help disks that have already been
allocated this has not been included in this change to simplify backports.

Change-Id: If642e51a4e186833349a8e30b04224a3687f5594
Closes-bug: #1764489
2018-04-16 20:33:42 +01:00
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mount Move flushing block devices to privsep. 2017-12-13 05:22:15 +11:00
vfs Merge "Check the return code when forcing TCG mode with libguestfs" 2018-03-12 22:59:14 +00:00
__init__.py Remove vi modelines 2014-02-03 14:19:44 +00:00
api.py libvirt: Report the allocated size of preallocated file based disks 2018-04-16 20:33:42 +01:00