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Target install_dm_plugin installs files to libdir/device-mapper.
Target install_lvm2_plugin installs files to libdir/lvm2.
Both targets creates relative links to libdir to keep the code
compatible with current dlopen handling.
Once we will be able to read plugins from subdir, links
could be removed.
being able to remove more images from a mirror than the
number of PVs directly specified for removal.
The effort to fix bug 581611 corrected a bug that was unnoticed
at the time. The loop in _remove_mirror_images that looks over
the specified PVs was allowing devices that were previously
counted and moved to the end of the list to be double-counted.
This resulted in the number of devices needed for removal always
being satisfied - even if the user did not specify enough PVs
for removal to satisfy the request. When 581611 was fixed, this
double-counting no longer took place and the result was to remove
only the minimum of the number of PVs specified or the number
that was asked to be removed.
By simply always setting 'new_area_count' (as used to be done
only in the else statement), we return to the previous behavior.
Indeed, this is exactly what the double-counting was allowing
to happen before the fix of 581611.
Allow lv_remove_with_dependencies() to know the top-level LV that was
requested to be removed (otherwise it recurses and we lose context).
A merging snapshot cannot be removed directly but the associated origin
can be. Disallow removal of a merging snapshot unless the associated
origin is also being removed.
There's no need for foreign udev rules to touch LVM reserved devices
(snapshot, pvmove, _mlog, _mimage, _vorigin) even if they happen to
be visible. The same applies for /dev/disk content - no need to create
any content for these devices (and so no need to run any "blkid" etc.).
This also prevents setting any inotify "watch" from udev rules on such
devices that is a source of race conditions (the rules need to honor
DM_UDEV_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG for this to work though).
We should write metadata into next position in the ring buffer while calling
vgrename and vgcfgrestore. At this code level (_vg_write_raw), we were not able
to determine if this is a rename or not. If yes, then accompanying VG structure
passed here has a new name set, not the old one.
When looking for a location where to put metadata next, we were given a NULL
value because of failed VG name comparison (in _find_vg_rlocn) between the
name in existing metadata and metadata we're just about to write.
This resets the position in the ring buffer, overwriting any existing metadata
(and also incorrectly updates the cache to "orphan" afterwards).
This patch just adds old_name item in struct volume_group that we can check and use
if necessary and detect renames at lower layers as well.
The same applies for vgcfgrestore, but here we're using a special value of
old_name, an empty string, to disable the check with existing metadata totally.
Internally, we used DM names instead of UUIDs while processing event
handlers. This caused problems while trying to vgrename a VG with active LVs
where the names are being changed and so the devices were not found then.
The patch also contains a little bit of refactoring, moving "build_dlid" code
found in dev_manager.c to "build_dm_uuid", now in lvm-string.c (so we have
build_dm_uuid and build_dm_name at one place).
lvm2app needs a link back to the vg in order to use the vg handle for
memory allocations as well as other things. This patch adds the field
to struct physical_volume, and sets pv->vg when reading a vg from disk or
extending a vg by using the helper function previously added,
add_pvl_to_vgs(). Moves and renames are handled with separate code
inside move_pv() and vgmerge(). Add pv->vg check to vg_validate().
A NULL value in pv->vg signifies membership in the orphan VG.
Note though in the case of pv_read() on a device with metadatacopies == 0,
more devices may need to be read for an authoritative answer.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Now that we have library functions to add/delete a pv from the vg->pvs
list, call them from everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Add a delete function to manage the vg->pvs list.
NOTE: It may be possible to do further cleanup to these add/del functions
by passing a 'pv' as input instead of 'pv_list'. The pv_list is used for
functions which do allocations (lvcreate) while other places in the code
just manage a list of 'pv' (e.g. import functions, vgextend, etc).
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Move the increment of vg->pv_count next to the place where we add to
vg->pvs. It looks safe to do this since the only caller of import_pool_vg()
calls import_pool_pvs() immediately afterward, and there is no way
import_pool_vg() can fail (always returns 1). However, if there's a
memory allocation failure inside import_pool_pvs(), we will end up with
a different count in vg->pv_count that with the original code. In any
case, vg->pv_count should be as close to dm_list_size(&vg->pvs) as
possible, as is the case everywhere else in the code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
The dm_list * parameter is unnecessary since we are passing in 'vg'
and the only caller of import_pool_pvs() passes '&vg->pvs' in the
dm_list * parameter. Just use vg->pvs directly in the function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Patch is inspired by Debian's extra patch.
- removes OWNER & GROUP make vars they are parts of INSTALL command.
- adds INSTALL_PROGRAM for executable, uses $(INSTALL)
- adds INSTALL_DATA for non-executable data, uses ($INSTALL)
- adds INSTALL_WDATA for writable non-executable data, uses ($INSTALL)
- adds configure option --enable-write_install - to support
installatin of writable files used by distribution
- replaces usage of ifeq @LIB_SUFFIX@ with $(LIB_SUFFIX)
- installs .a files from static builds without executable flag
- installs .a files to $(usrlibdir) instead of $(libdir)
- installs all static binaries to $(staticdir)
- create .so links for devel package in $(usrlibdir) instead of
$(libdir)
- makes .so and .so.LIB_VERSION files within builddir
- removes VERSIONED_SHLIB and created versioned LIB_SHARED automagicaly
- install LIB_SHARED via install_lib_shared target
- install plugins via install_lib_shared_plugin target
- prints whole 'install' command during installation instead of less
informative "Installing $(something) $(somewhere)"
- install multiple man pages with one INSTALL command
- use DISTCLEAN_TARGETS instead of creating multiple distclean targets
Usage of VPATH makes troubles when used within $(builddir).
Not only source files are being found through VPATH,
but targets as well. (make --debug=v)
Thus if user builds the code in $(srcdir) and also in some $(builddir)
he gets mangled results as some generated files (i.e. .export.sym)
are 'reused' from $(srcdir) instead of $(builddir).
This patch switches to use vpath were we could explicitly name
suffixes that should be looked via vpath - we must take care,
we do not generate files with these suffixes:
.c, .in, .po, .exported_symbols
A user specifying duplicate paths on the cmdline of vgcreate will
get a message similar to the following:
vgcreate vgtest2 /dev/loop3 /dev/loop5
Found duplicate PV jk1lXsKzwyOKlXq6bhaFFKMQQ06oPgu8: using /dev/loop5 not /dev/loop3
Found duplicate PV jk1lXsKzwyOKlXq6bhaFFKMQQ06oPgu8: using /dev/loop3 not /dev/loop5
Internal error: Duplicate PV id jk1lXs-Kzwy-OKlX-q6bh-aFFK-MQQ0-6oPgu8 detected for /dev/loop3 in vgtest2.
This is caught by vg_validate(), but it would be good to find
this condition earlier in the vgcreate code. add_pv_to_vg()
currently checks by pvname, but does not look for duplcate pvids.
This patch adds the check for duplicate pvids and results in new
error output as follows:
vgcreate vgtest2 /dev/loop3 /dev/loop5
Found duplicate PV jk1lXsKzwyOKlXq6bhaFFKMQQ06oPgu8: using /dev/loop5 not /dev/loop3
Found duplicate PV jk1lXsKzwyOKlXq6bhaFFKMQQ06oPgu8: using /dev/loop3 not /dev/loop5
Physical volume '/dev/loop5 (jk1lXs-Kzwy-OKlX-q6bh-aFFK-MQQ0-6oPgu8)' listed more than once.
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop5' to volume group 'vgtest2'.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
When moving parts of striped LVs, pvmove wouldn't care about leaving you with
two stripes on the same disk. Now --alloc anywhere is needed for that.
(Tried and gave up on two alternative approaches before the one committed here.)
Small refactor of main places in the code where a pv is added to a
vg into a small function which adds the pv to the list and updates
the vg counts.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Refactor adding to the vg->pvs list and incrementing the count, which
will allow further refactoring. Should be no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Simple refactor to mov code that updates the vg extent counts from a
single pv's counts close to the code that adds a pv to vg->pvs and
updates vg->pv_count. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
In add_pv_to_vg(), we should only add the pv to vg->pvs after all
internal checks have passed. The check for vg->extent_count exeeding
maximum was after we added the pv to the list, so this function could
return a state of vg->pvs that did not reflect other parameters such
as vg->pv_count.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Because we have now strong rule for lock ordering:
- VG locks must be taken in alphabetical order
- ORPHAN locks must be the last
vgs_locked() is now not needed.
This fixes problem with orphan locking, e.g.
vgremove VG1 | vgremove VG2
lock(VG1) | lock(VG2)
lock(ORPHAN) | lock(ORPHAN) -> fail, non-blocking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578413
(More similar places in code.)
Physical segments were still allocated from global
command context mempool.
This leads to very high memory usage when
activating large VG (vgchange).
(Memory usage was about 2G when >3000LVs).
Fix it by properly using vg->vgmem private pool,
so all the memory is released early.
New memory pool parameter is needed here for pv_split_segment
function.
Also fix the same problem in some minor allocations
(vg description, lv segment split).
In addition to previous patch, we really do not need
to search for segment which was just allocated in
split request.
Make pv_split_segment function return newly allocated
(split) segment also.
(So after this patch, there is only one user
of slow find_peg_by_pe).
The function find_peg_by_pe is incredibly inefficient
for Pvs with many segments.
In shiny future there should be binary (or interval) tree
instead of sorted linked list (volunteers?).
Anyway, for now, we can use dirty trick here to optimise this case:
- Allocations are usually applied from the beginning
of PV (we have no alloocation policy which allocates areas
"backwards")
- The only user of find_peg_by_pe is pv_split_segment()
call. In *most* cases it need to split *last* PV segment.
So if we search sorted pv segment list backwards, we
hit the requested segment immediatelly.
This patch applies this tiny change.
(and saves >30% of processing time when >3000LVs segments are on one PV!)
To discourage using this inefficient function from other code,
it is moved to pv_manip.c and used static for now:-)
vg_validate call is an adept to optimisation, it is very
ineeficient and slow.
Anyway, we should call it only before writing data to disk.
The call in lvmcache was just temporary validation,
we realy do not need to revalidate cached metadata
every time.
(Actually, I added that there just to prove that cache works
properly and forgot to remove it.)
Patch removes it from lvmcache completely, this can hit only
internal bug in export function (and this bug must
be detected in any vg_write call anyway before).
The _read_vg uses already hash for PVs to optimise
reading of large VGs and avoiding repeated PV list traversing.
Use the same aproach to speed up parsing VG with many LVs.
Code moves initilization of stats values to _memlock_maps().
For dmeventd we need to use mlockall() - so avoid reading config value
and go with _use_mlockall code path.
Patch assumes dmeventd uses C locales!
Patch needs the call or memlock_inc_daemon() before memlock_inc()
(which is our common use case).
Some minor code cleanup patch for _un/_lock_mem_if_needed().
in clvmd, dmevend, man, tests.
Don't include dependency files for clow and cscope.out targets
Improve dependency tracking for dmeventd and liblvm2cmd sources.
to obtain sources. Create make.tmpl target for
simplier generation of cflow files with the help of
CFLOW_LIST, CFLOW_LIST_TARGET, CFLOW_TARGET.
Still cflow usage is not perfect.
Move daemons/ and lib/ subtargets to their Makefiles so we don't get
double cleanup error during execution of distclean target.
Instead of duplicating clean target inside distclean target,
just use it as a subtarget and avoid add duplicating code.
This check-in enables the 'mirrored' log type. It can be specified
by using the '--mirrorlog' option as follows:
#> lvcreate -m1 --mirrorlog mirrored -L 5G -n lv vg
I've also included a couple updates to the testsuite. These updates
include tests for the new log type, and some fixes to some of the
*lvconvert* tests.
clvmd's do_lock_lv() already properly controls dmeventd monitoring based
on LCK_DMEVENTD_MONITOR_MODE in lock_flags -- though one small fix was
needed for this to work: _lock_for_cluster() must treat
dmeventd_monitor_mode()'s return as a tri-state value.
Also cleanup do_lock_lv() to:
- explicitly init_dmeventd_monitor() based on LCK_DMEVENTD_MONITOR_MODE
- no longer reset init_dmeventd_monitor() to default at the end of
do_lock_lv() -- it is unnecessary
This is the next preparatory step towards better --alloc anywhere
support and is not intended to break anything that currently works so
please report any problems - segfaults, bogus data in the new debug
messages, or if the code now chooses bizarre allocation layouts.
. 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>
When we pv_read() a device that has an orphan vgname, we might need to scan
the system to be sure this is true. However, if the PV has mdas, there's
no way possible for it to have an orphan vgname unless it is a true orphan.
Some areas of the code were optimized to take advantage of this fact, while
others were not (we would still do the expensive scan if a device had mdas
but had an orphan VG).
This patch unifies the code so that every place we are operating on such
a PV, we skip the expensive scan if there are mdas.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If user try to vgcreate or vgextend non-existent VG,
these messages appears:
# vgcreate xxx /dev/xxx
Internal error: Volume Group xxx was not unlocked
Device /dev/xxx not found (or ignored by filtering).
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/xxx' to volume group 'xxx'.
Internal error: Attempt to unlock unlocked VG xxx.
(the same with existing VG and non-existing PV & vgextend)
# vgextend vg_test /dev/xxx
...
It is caused because code tries to "refresh" cache if
md filter is switched on using cache destroy.
But we can change filters and rescan even without this
machinery now, just use refresh_filters
(and reset md filter afterwards).
(Patch also discovers cache alias bug in vgsplit test,
fix it by using better filter line.)
(VDSO on 32bit is VSyscall on 64bit)
It seems it could be locked on 64bit kernels running 32bit binaries,
but it makes troubles on real 32bit machines where mlock() returns
error when trying to lock such map area. (0xffffe000)
Behavior of mlockall() seems to be similar.
This patch adds a new implementation of locking function instead
of mlockall() that may lock way too much memory (>100MB).
New function instead uses mlock() system call and selectively locks
memory areas from /proc/self/maps trying to avoid locking areas
unused during lock-ed state.
Patch also adds struct cmd_context to all memlock() calls to have
access to configuration.
For backward compatibility functionality of mlockall()
is preserved with "activation/use_mlockall" flag.
As a simple check, locking and unlocking counts the amount of memory
and compares whether values are matching.
Modify linking of readline library. Create new substituted varible
READLINE_LIBS - readline library is linked ONLY with tools that really use
it - i.e. lvm. (Static lvm does not use readlin).
Previous behaviour put this library into the variable LIBS and thus
linked it with all created object files of lvm project (i.e. plugins...).
READLINE detection is simplified.
Termcap library is linked in only if readline library doesn't have its own
dependency (i.e. old distributions).
The kernel's blk_stack_limits() function may flag a device as
'misaligned'. If it does the alignment_offset will be -1.
Update set_pe_align_offset() to accommodate this corner case.
lvm2 devices have always UUID set even if imported from lvm1 metadata.
Patch removes name argument from dev_manager_info call and converts
all activation related calls to use query by UUID.
Also it simplifies mknode call (which is the only user on mknodes parameter).
We need to allocate memory for the tag and copy the tag value before we
add it to the list of tags. We could put this inside lvm2app since the
tools keep their memory around until vg_write/vg_commit is called, but
we put it inside the internal library to minimize code in lvm2app.
We need to copy the tag passed in by the caller to ensure the lifetime of
the memory until the {vg|lv} handle is released.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Similar refactoring to vgchange - pull out common parts and put into
library function for reuse. Should be no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Pull out common code to be called from tools as well as lvm2app.
Leave archive() at tool level so we can use from vgcreate
as well as vgchange. Should be no functional change.
- add stack macro in vgchange
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Add a merging snapshot to the deptree, using the "error" target, rather
than avoid adding it entirely. This allows proper cleanup of the -cow
device without having to rename the -cow to use the origin's name as a
prefix.
Move the preloading of the origin LV, after a merge, from
lv_remove_single() to vg_remove_snapshot(). Having vg_remove_snapshot()
preload the origin allows the -cow device to be released so that it can
be removed via deactivate_lv(). lv_remove_single()'s deactivate_lv()
reliably removes the -cow device because the associated snapshot LV,
that is to be removed when a snapshot-merge completes, is always added
to the deptree (and kernel -- via "error" target).
Now when the snapshot LV is removed both the -cow and -real devices
get removed using uuid rather than device name. This paves the way
for us to switch over to info-by-uuid queries.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Internally we store sizes in sectors, but lvm2app exports sizes
in bytes. We could get fancier and allow units configuration but
this fix should do for now.
Fixes rhbz561422.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
We unfortunately don't yet _know_, in dev_manager_snapshot_percent(), if
a snapshot-merge target is active (activation is deferred if dev is
open); so we can't short-circuit origin devices based purely on existing
LVM LV attributes.
Set 'fail_if_percent_unsupported' in dev_manager_snapshot_percent() for
a merging origin LV, otherwise passing unsupported LV types to _percent
will lead to a default successful return with percent_range as
PERCENT_100.
For a merging origin, PERCENT_100 will result in a polldaemon that runs
infinitely (because completion is PERCENT_0).
When activating a merging origin it is valid, and expected, to not have
a node in the deptree for both the origin and its merging snapshot. The
_cached_info() caller is only concerned with whether a device is open.
If there isn't a node in the tree the associated device is definitely
not open.
where we should not expose internal VG names/uuids (the ones with "#" prefix )through the
interface. Otherwise, we could end up with library users opening internal VGs which will
initiate locking mechanism that won't be cleaned up properly.
"#orphans_{lvm1, lvm2, pool}" names are treated in a special way, they are truncated first
to "orphans" and this is used as a part of the lock name then (e.g. while calling lvm_vg_open()).
When library user calls lvm_vg_close(), the original name "orphans_{lvm1, lvm2, pool}"
is used directly and therefore no unlock occurs.
We should exclude internal VG names and uuids in the lists provided by lvmcache:
lvmcache_get_vgids() and lvmcache_get_vgnames().
In dev_manager_info 0 means error and 1 info is returned,
not that device exists (that value is part of info struct).
Fix query by uuid only (no name) which returns 0 when device
does not exist.
more descriptive message if locking fails instead of
"Locking type -1 initialisation failed."
Use read-only locking instead of misleading ignorelocking option
in message.
All this seems to do is provide a memory leak so remove it.
The only caller of _alloc_pv() later explicitly sets
pv->vg_name = fmt->orphan_vg_name so clearly this allocation
should be removed. I also saw no where in the code where
strncpy was used to assign pv->vg_name - only direct assignments
and strdup's.
merge completes. This narrows the scope of this "hack" (which still
needs a proper fix within the deptree).
This stops dmeventd from trying to access snapshot devices that were
already removed.
For mirror repair (and similar tasks) it can happen that full
device rescan is issued from clvmd.
Because code can be in the middle of repair (calling suspend)
clvmd should never try to scan suspended devices
(otherwise it causes deadlock).
Also code must not change ignore_suspended_device flag when
doing refresh_filters (called from lvmcache scan code).
'const'. Be consistent with its use (and dev_manager_snapshot_percent()).
Pass 'lv' from dev_manager_snapshot_percent() to _percent() to
_percent_run(). _percent_run() always dereferenced 'lv' (when
initializing segh) even though it may have been NULL (as was the case
until now for dev_manager_snapshot_percent()).
If a "snapshot-origin" LV (snapshot-merge whose merge was deferred
becuase it was open) was passed to _percent_run() it would always return
100%.
Update _percent_run() to NOT return PERCENT_100 et. al. if
->target_percent() wasn't ever called and supplied 'lv' is a merging
origin. A default return of 100% does not work for snapshot-merge.
Also tweak a related lvconvert log_error() to include "Aborting merge."
Eliminate 'merging_snapshot' from 'struct logical_volume' and just use
'snapshot' for origin lv's reference to the merging snapshot; also set
MERGING in the origin lv's status.
If either the origin or snapshot that is to be merged is open the merge
will not start; only the merge metadata will be written. The merge will
start on the next activation of the origin (or via lvchange --refresh)
IFF both the origin and snapshot are closed.
Merge on activate is particularly important if we want to merge over a
mounted filesystem that cannot be unmounted (until next boot) --- for
example root.
snapshots are suspended, new origin is created, snapshots are resumed, new
origin is resumed. So it allocates memory while suspended.
To fix it, move vg_commit after suspend_lv, so that the suspend code will
treat it as precommitted vg and will preload new origin prior to suspend.
NOTE: agk doesn't like this "hack"; need to revisit and fix
This is useful for when the snapshot is still active and merging hasn't
started yet; it shows a merge is pending. Once merging starts the
merging snapshot will be hidden but can still be displayed with 'lvs -a'
Report snapshot origin with merging snapshot as 'O' instead of 'o':
Before merge starts this shows that a merge is pending. While merging
the snapshot will be hidden, 'O' enables a user to see that there is a
snapshot merging.
"snapshot-merge" target based on whether the LV is a merging snapshot.
When activating a snapshot-merge target do not attempt to monitor the
LV for events; the polldaemon will monitor the snapshot as it is
merged.
Allow "snapshot-merge" target's usage to be parsed via standard
"snapshot" methods.
NOTE: follow on fixes to the _percent_run change are still needed
Introduces new libdevmapper function dm_tree_node_add_snapshot_merge_target
Verifies that the kernel (dm-snapshot) provides the 'snapshot-merge'
target.
Activate origin LV as snapshot-merge target. Using snapshot-origin
target would be pointless because the origin contains volatile data
while a merge is in progress.
Because snapshot-merge target is activated in place of the
snapshot-origin target it must be resumed after all other snapshots
(just like snapshot-origin does) --- otherwise small window for data
corruption would exist.
Ideally the merging snapshot would not be activated at all but if it is
to be activated (because snapshot was already active) it _must_ be done
after the snapshot-merge. This insures that DM's snapshot-merge target
will perform exception handover in the proper order (new->resume before
old->resume). DM's snapshot-merge does support handover if the reverse
sequence is used (old->resume before new->resume) but DM will fail to
resume the old snapshot; leaving it suspended.
To insure the proper activation sequence dm_tree_activate_children() was
updated to accommodate an additional 'activation_priority' level. All
regular snapshots are 0, snapshot-merge is 1, and merging snapshot is 2.
Make 'merging_snapshot' pointer that points from the origin to the
segment that represents the merging snapshot.
Import/export 'merging_store' metadata.
Do not allow creating snapshots while another snapshot is merging.
Snapshot created in this state would certainly contain invalid data.
NOTE: patches at the end of this series will remove 'merging_snapshot'
and will introduce helpful wrappers and cleanups.
This spurious 'break' has been here since this code was first committed
in June 2005 and stopped the algorithm behaving as described in the
comment above it and rendered the variable 'already_found_one' useless.
1. Found bug in 'redundant log' implementation that caused
problems when converting a linear that spanned multiple
devices to a mirror (wasn't checking for NULL value of
provided parameter in _alloc_parallel_area)
2. Testsuite was failing to perform tests when 'not' modifier
was used. This allowed a couple issues to slip through.
Added a 'not_sh' modifier that negates tests performed by
functions defined in the shell source file.
3. Was initializing a variable to far down, which cause
previously set value to be overridden. (This was the
result of the collision of the "redundant log" and
lvconvert fix patches.)
Upon successful fork(), _become_daemon() must assert that the locks that
are currently held belong to the parent, not the child. All of the
child's internal state saying 'this process holds a lock' has to be
reset.
A proper lvmcache_locking_reset() should follow later.
