Hi, On 03/06/16 11:52, "users-boun...@openvz.org on behalf of Roman Haefeli" <users-boun...@openvz.org on behalf of reduz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear All, > >We're considering creating regular snapshots of our containers. The >setup would include deleting the oldest snapshots. While playing around >with creating and deleting snapshots, I noticed that the root.hdd file >keeps growing. It seems there is no point at all in deleting old >snapshots for the only purpose of saving disk space. Then I tried to >reclaim some space back with 'vzctl compact <name>', but it wasn't able >to reclaim anything. Only when I deleted all snapshots, 'vzctl compact ><name>' seems to be effective. > >Now, my question is, will there be support in the future to reclaim >space, even if there are snapshots? It's a bit tricky, and that'a why there were no such plans so far. Could you please explain why are you considering regular snapshots? What is a use case? > >Am I right in thinking that there is no reason to delete snaphots, since >it will never free any disk space? Yes, one could use pcompact (or ploop discard) for this purpose. > >Thanks, >Roman Thank you, Dima. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users