Should we always do wipefs before mkfs? Discuss ...
by Richard W.M. Jones
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907554
In particular comments 2 & 3.
We could change libguestfs's guestfs_mkfs (internally) so it always
does an implicit wipefs on the filesystem. wipefs is not too onerous --
in particular I believe it only writes to a few chosen areas of the
disk. Especially considering that we're about to run mkfs anyway
which for some filesystems writes a lot of blocks.
Thoughts?
Rich.
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