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Dave Wysochanski
8c013d78b6 Minor man page updates related to metadataignore and vgmetadatacopies.
pvchange: Add --metadataignore description
vgchange: Fix minor formatting
pvcreate: Update metadataignore description to refer to pvchange
lvm.conf: Refer to pvcreate and pvchange for metadata options.
2010-07-13 15:04:23 +00:00
Dave Wysochanski
1c0c6cc812 Minor changes to man pages for --metadataignore.
Move the definition from pvchange to pvcreate - the location of
other metadata options.
2010-07-02 17:05:22 +00:00
Dave Wysochanski
bc963e745c Define vgmetadatacopies in vgchange man page.
This patch adds a vgmetadatacopies parameter for metadata balancing.
This parameter provides a simple way for users to create a policy for
placing metadata on PVs automatically by LVM.  The behavior is implemented
inside LVM by managing the 'ignore' mda bits.  We chose the name
'vgmetadatacopies' as this is a natural extension to the existing parameter
'pvmetadatacopies' / 'metadatacopies' in pvcreate.

This is a first step at VG parameter based metadata balancing.  Most users
will probably want to state that they want a certain number of PVs to contain
metadata, and they may be less concerned about a specific number of metadata
copies in the volume group.  However, for default values (pvmetadatacopies
is 1 by default), the number of metadatacopies in the volume group, and the
number of PVs with metadata are the same.  In the future we could add
vgmetadatacopiespvs to define more specifically the number of pvs in the
VG that contain metadata, but for now we start with this parameter.

Another possible future extension would be to define a specific pv tag
to mark the set of PVs that should be used for metadata balancing.  This
tag based approach could be used in conjunction with 'vgmetadatacopies'.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
2010-06-28 20:36:18 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
d50c6d4bf5 Add new --sysinit option for vgchange and lvchange.
A shortcut for --ignorelockingfailure, --ignoremonitoring, --poll n options
and LVM_SUPPRESS_LOCKING_FAILURE_MESSAGES environment variable used all at
once in initialisation scripts (e.g. rc.sysinit or initrd).
2010-05-06 11:15:55 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
a6bc975a24 Improve activation monitoring option processing
. Add "monitoring" option to "activation" section of lvm.conf
. Have clvmd consult the lvm.conf "activation/monitoring" too.
. Introduce toollib.c:get_activation_monitoring_mode().
. Error out when both --monitor and --ignoremonitoring are provided.
. Add --monitor and --ignoremonitoring support to lvcreate.  Update
  lvcreate man page accordingly.
. Clarify that '--monitor' controls the start and stop of monitoring in
  the {vg,lv}change man pages.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2010-03-23 22:30:18 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
f407c8afd0 . update documentation for --poll in the vgchange and lvchange man pages
. add high-level --poll FIXMEs to vgchange.c and lvchange.c
2010-01-06 19:08:58 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
7a8fa6aaab Add a [--poll {y|n}] flag to vgchange and lvchange to control whether
the background polldaemon is allowed to start.  It can be used
standalone or in conjunction with --refresh or --available y.

Control over when the background polldaemon starts will be particularly
important for snapshot-merge of a root filesystem.

Dracut will be updated to activate all LVs with: --poll n

The lvm2-monitor initscript will start polling with: --poll y

NOTE: Because we currently have no way of knowing if a background
polldaemon is active for a given LV the following limitations exist and
have been deemed acceptable:
1) it is not possible to stop an active polldaemon; so the lvm2-monitor
   initscript doesn't stop running polldaemon(s)
2) redundant polldaemon instances will be started for all specified LVs
   if vgchange or lvchange are repeatedly used with '--poll y'

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2010-01-05 20:56:51 +00:00
Dave Wysochanski
0ddb66efba Add --pvmetadatacopies as a synonym for --metadatacopies in various commands.
Going forward, we would like to allow users to specify the total
number of metadatacopies in a VG rather than on a per-PV basis.  In
order to facilitate that, introduce --pvmetadatacopes to replace
--metadatacopies everywhere.  We still allow --metadatacopies for
pv commands, but require --pvmetadatacopies for vg commands.
Eventually we will introduce --vgmetadatacopies.  Once we do that,
we should either deprecate --metadatacopies or make it a synonym based
on the command (pvmetadatacopies for pv commands, and vgmetadatacopies
for vg commands).  The latter option would likely just require a simple
'strncpy' check against cmd->command->name to qualify the merge_synonym
call.

Update nightly tests to cover the pvmetadatacopies synonym.

Note that this patch is the result of an eariler review comment for
the implicit pvcreate patches.  Should apply cleanly on top of the
implicit pvcreate patches (I applied after patch 10/10 in that series).

NOTE: This patch will require --pvmetadatacopies for vgconvert as
--metadatacopies is no longer accepted.
2009-10-05 20:55:56 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
c48b10050a '--noudevsync' -- update relevant man pages 2009-08-04 08:09:52 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
c1060e13a7 Allow commandline sizes to be specified in terms of bytes and sectors.
Update the man pages to document size units uniformly.
2009-07-06 19:13:26 +00:00
Dave Wysochanski
82c29eedc0 Update vgchange and vgmknodes man pages to include --refresh.
Author: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
2009-02-25 13:17:40 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
5951ef331a Generate man pages from templates and include version. (romster) 2008-10-08 12:50:13 +00:00