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As part of fix that came with cf700151eb,
I forgot to add the check whether the result of stat was successful or
not. This bug caused uninitialized buffer to be used for entries
from .cache file which are no longer valid.
This bug may have caused these uninitialized values to be used further,
for example (see the unreal (2567,590944) representing major:minor
pair):
$ pvs
/dev/abc: stat failed: No such file or directory
Path /dev/abc no longer valid for device(2567,590944)
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/test lvm2 --- 104.00m 104.00m
/dev/vda2 rhel lvm2 a-- 9.51g 0
This is a regression introduced by commit
6c0e44d5a2 which changed
the way dev_cache_get fn works - before this patch, when a
device was not found, it fired a full rescan to correct the
cache. However, the change coming with that commit missed
this full_rescan call, causing the lvmcache to still contain
info about PVs which should be filtered now.
Such situation may have happened by coincidence of using
old persistent cache (/etc/lvm/cache/.cache) which does not
reflect the actual state anymore, a device name/symlink which
now points to a device which should be filtered and a fact we
keep info about usable DM devices in .cache no matter what
the filter setting is.
This bug could be hidden though by changes introduced in
commit f1a000a477 as it
calls full_rescan earlier before this problem is hit.
But we need to fix this anyway for the dev_cache_get
to be correct if we happen to use the same code path
again somewhere sometime.
For example, simple reproducer was (before commit
1a000a477558e157532d5f2cd2f9c9139d4f87c):
- /dev/sda contains a PV header with UUID y5PzRD-RBAv-7sBx-V3SP-vDmy-DeSq-GUh65M
- lvm.conf: filter = [ "r|.*|" ]
- rm -f .cache (to start with clean state)
- dmsetup create test --table "0 8388608 linear /dev/sda 0" (8388608 is
just the size of the /dev/sda device I use in the reproducer)
- pvs (this will create .cache file which contains
"/dev/disk/by-id/lvm-pv-uuid-y5PzRD-RBAv-7sBx-V3SP-vDmy-DeSq-GUh65M"
as well as "/dev/mapper/test" and the target node "/dev/dm-1" - all the
usable DM mappings (and their symlinks) get into the .cache file even
though the filter "is set to "ignore all" - we do this - so far it's OK)
- dmsetup remove test (so we end up with /dev/disk/by-id/lvm-pv-uuid-...
pointing to the /dev/sda now since it's the underlying device
containing the actual PV header)
- now calling "pvs" with such .cache file and we get:
$ pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/disk/by-id/lvm-pv-uuid-y5PzRD-RBAv-7sBx-V3SP-vDmy-DeSq-GUh65M vg lvm2 a-- 4.00g 0
Even though we have set filter = [ "r|.*|" ] in the lvm.conf file!
Comply with the rules we have for log_error and log_warn...
$ pvcreate /dev/sda1
Failed to get offset of the xfs_external_log signature on /dev/sda1.
1 existing signature left on the device.
Aborting pvcreate on /dev/sda1.
$ pvcreate /dev/sda1 --force
WARNING: Failed to get offset of the xfs_external_log signature on /dev/sda1.
Physical volume "/dev/sda1" successfully created
libblkid may return the list of signatures found, but it may not
provide offset and size for each signature detected. This may
happen in case signatures are mixed up or there are more, possibly
overlapping, signatures found.
Make lvm commands pass if such situation happens and we're using
--force (or any stronger force method).
For example:
$ pvcreate /dev/sda1
Failed to get offset of the xfs_external_log signature on /dev/sda1.
1 existing signature left on the device.
Aborting pvcreate on /dev/sda1.
$ pvcreate --force /dev/sda1
Failed to get offset of the xfs_external_log signature on /dev/sda1.
Physical volume "/dev/sda1" successfully created
Replace misleading "not found" in the log message when
devices/preferred_names is set to empty array:
Really not found:
device/dev-cache.c:689 devices/preferred_names not found in config: using built-in preferences
Found, but empty:
config/config.c:1431 Setting devices/preferred_names to preferred_names = [ ]
device/dev-cache.c:689 devices/preferred_names is empty: using built-in preferences
Example:
/dev/loop0 and /dev/loop1 are duplicates,
created by copying one backing file to the
other.
'identity /dev/loopX' creates an identity
mapping for loopX named idmloopX, which
adds a duplicate for the named device.
The duplicate selection code for lvmetad is
incomplete, and lvmetad is disabled for this
example.
[~]# losetup -f loopfile0
[~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/loop0 foo lvm2 a-- 308.00m 296.00m
[~]# losetup -f loopfile1
[~]# pvs
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/loop1 not /dev/loop0
Using duplicate PV /dev/loop1 which is more recent, replacing /dev/loop0
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/loop1 foo lvm2 a-- 308.00m 308.00m
[~]# ./identity /dev/loop0
[~]# pvs
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/loop1 not /dev/loop0
Using duplicate PV /dev/loop1 without holders, replacing /dev/loop0
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/mapper/idmloop0 not /dev/loop1
Using duplicate PV /dev/mapper/idmloop0 from subsystem DM, replacing /dev/loop1
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/idmloop0 foo lvm2 a-- 308.00m 296.00m
[~]# ./identity /dev/loop1
[~]# pvs
WARNING: duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV is being used from both devices /dev/loop0 and /dev/loop1
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/loop1 not /dev/loop0
Using duplicate PV /dev/loop1 which is more recent, replacing /dev/loop0
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/mapper/idmloop0 not /dev/loop1
Using duplicate PV /dev/mapper/idmloop0 from subsystem DM, replacing /dev/loop1
Found duplicate PV LnSOEqzEYED3RvIOa5PZP2s7uyuBLmAV: using /dev/mapper/idmloop1 not /dev/mapper/idmloop0
Using duplicate PV /dev/mapper/idmloop1 which is more recent, replacing /dev/mapper/idmloop0
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/idmloop1 foo lvm2 a-- 308.00m 308.00m
When pvscan --cache --major --minor command is issued from
udev REMOVE event, it basically resulted into a whole device
scan since the device was missing. So avoid such scan
and first check via /sysfs (when available) if such device actually
exists.
Dop unused value assignments.
Unknown is detected via other combination
(!linear && !striped).
Also change the log_error() message into a warning,
since the function is not really returning error,
but still keep the INTERNAL_ERROR.
Ret value is always set later.
We exclude some signatures from being wiped when using blkid wiping.
These are signatures which we simply overwrite. For example, the
LVM2_member signature which denotes a PV - if we call pvcreate on
existing PV, we just overwrite the PV header, no need to wipe it.
Previously, we counted such signatures as if they were wiped
and they were counted in the final number of wiped signatures
that _wipe_known_signatures_with_blkid fn returned in the "wiped"
output arg. Then the code checking this output arg could be
mislead that wiping happened while no wiping took place in real
and we could fire some code uselessly based on this information
(e.g. refreshing filters/rescanning - see also
commit 6b4066585f).
Before, we refreshed filters and we did full rescan of devices if
we passed through wiping (wipe_known_signatures fn call). However,
this fn returns success even if no signatures were found and so
nothing was wiped. In this case, it's not necessary to do the
filter refresh/rescan of devices as nothing changed clearly.
This patch exports number of wiped signatures from all the
wiping functions below. The caller (_pvcreate_check) then checks
whether any wiping was done at all and if not, no refresh/rescan
is done, saving some time and resources.
Partitioned devices are marked in udev db as:
ID_PART_TABLE="<partition table type name>"
and at the same time they are *not* marked with:
ID_PART_ENTRY_DISK="<parent disk major:minor>"
Where partition table type name is dos/gpt/... But checking the presence
of this variable is enough for LVM here - it just needs to know whether
there's a partition table or not, not interested in the actual type.
The same applies for parent disk major:minor.
Normally, if there are partitions defined on top of device-mapper
device, there should be a device-mapper device created for each
partiton on top of the old one and once the underlying DM device
is used by another devices (partition mappings in this case),
it can't be used as a PV anymore.
However, sometimes, it may happen the partition mappings are
missing - either the partitioning tool is not creating them if
it does not contain full support for device-mapper devices or
the mappings were removed.
Better safe than sorry - check for partition header on DM devs
and filter them out as unsuitable for PVs in case the check is
positive. Whatever the user is doing, let's do our best to prevent
unwanted corruption (...by running pvcreate on top of such device
that would corrupt the partition header).
The code in dev_iter_create assumes that if a filter can be wiped, doing so will
always trigger a call to _full_scan. This is not true for composite filters
though, since they can always be wiped in principle, but there is no way to know
that a component filter inside will exist that actually triggers the scan.
Avoid playing with +1.
PATH_MAX code needs probably more thinking anyway, since
there is no MAX path in Linux - user may easily create path
with 64kB chars - so 4kB buffer is surelly not enough for
such dirs.
Note:
http://insanecoding.blogspot.cz/2007/11/pathmax-simply-isnt.html
The list of strings is used quite frequently and we'd like to reuse
this simple structure for report selection support too. Make it part
of libdevmapper for general reuse throughout the code.
This also simplifies the LVM code a bit since we don't need to
include and manage lvm-types.h anymore (the string list was the
only structure defined there).
When lvm2 command works with clvmd and uses locking in wrong way,
it may 'leak' certain file descriptors in opened (incorrect) state.
dev_cache_exit then destroys memory pool of cached devices, while
_open_devices list in dev-io.c was still referencing them if they
were still opened.
Patch properly calls _close() function to 'self-heal' from this
invalid state, but it will report internal error (so execution
with abort_on_internal_error causes immediate death). On the
normal 'execution', error is only reported, but memory state is
corrected, and linked list is not referencing devices from
released mempool.
For crash see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073886
Smallest supported size for swap device is 40KB, however current
test skipped devices smaller then 4096 sectors (2MB).
Since page is in bytes, convert it to sectors before comparing
with device size (in sectors).
The libblkid can detect DM_snapshot_cow signature and when creating
new LVs with blkid wiping used (allocation/use_blkid_wiping=1 lvm.conf
setting and --wipe y used at the same time - which it is by default).
Do not issue any prompts about this signature when new LV is created
and just wipe it right away without asking questions. Still keep the
log in verbose mode though.
We need both offset and length when trying to wipe detected signatures.
The libblkid can fail so it's good to have an error message issued for
this state instead of being silent (libblkid does not issue any error
messages here). We just issued "stack" here before but that was not
quite useful if some error occurs...
If there is no define for BLKPBSZGET - we have hard time how to
decrypt physical block size - we can't use here block_size,
since this is usually 4k while we need to use 512b.
FIXME: find some better way, until that enforce value 512.
Eventually we could also try to put in:
+#ifndef BLKPBSZGET
+# define BLKPBSZGET _IO(0x12,123)
+#endif
but this will still not work well on old kernels.
When the device is inserted in dev_name_confirmed() stat() is
called twice as _insert() has it's own stat() call.
Extend _insert() parameter with struct stat* - which could be used
if it has been just obtained. When NULL is passed code is
doing its own stat() call as before.
If we're calling pvcreate on a device that already has a PV label,
the blkid detects the existing PV and then we consider it for wiping
before we continue creating the new PV label and we issue a warning
with a prompt whether such old PV label should be removed. We don't
do this with native signature detection code. Let's make it consistent
with old behaviour.
But still keep this "PV" (identified as "LVM1_member" or "LVM2_member"
by blkid) detection when creating new LVs to avoid unexpected PV label
appeareance inside LV.
This is actually the wipefs functionailty as a matter of fact
(wipefs uses the same libblkid calls).
libblkid is more rich when it comes to detecting various
signatures, including filesystems and users can better
decide what to erase and what should be kept.
The code is shared for both pvcreate (where wiping is necessary
to complete the pvcreate operation) and lvcreate where it's up
to the user to decide.
The verbose output contains a bit more information about the
signature like LABEL and UUID.
For example:
raw/~ # lvcreate -L16m vg
WARNING: linux_raid_member signature detected on /dev/vg/lvol0 at offset 4096. Wipe it? [y/n]
or more verbose one:
raw/~ # lvcreate -L16m vg -v
...
Found existing signature on /dev/vg/lvol0 at offset 4096: LABEL="raw.virt:0" UUID="da6af139-8403-5d06-b8c4-13f6f24b73b1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" USAGE="raid"
WARNING: linux_raid_member signature detected on /dev/vg/lvol0 at offset 4096. Wipe it? [y/n]
The verbose output is the same output as found in blkid.
The wipe_known_signatures fn now wraps the _wipe_signature fn that is called
for each known signature (currently md, swap and luks). This patch makes the
code more readable, not repeating the same sequence when used anywhere in the
code. We're going to reuse this code later...
Put common printf() case into a function and use
the string with text format as direct arg to make
the compile time validation of args easier and
code shorter.
Switch log_error() to log_warn(), since 'return 0'
doesn't cause any failure here.
Split out the partitioned device filter that needs to open the device
and move the multipath filter in front of it.
When a device is multipathed, sending I/O to the underlying paths may
cause problems, the most obvious being I/O errors visible to lvm if a
path is down.
Revert the incorrect <backtrace> messages added when a device doesn't
pass a filter.
Log each filter initialisation to show sequence.
Avoid duplicate 'Using $device' debug messages.
The dev_get_primary_dev fn now returns:
0 if the dev is already a primary dev
1 if the dev is a partition, primary dev is returned in "result" (output arg)
-1 on error
This way, we can better differentiate between the error state
and the state in which the dev supplied is not a partition
in the caller (this was same return value before).
Also, if we already have information about the device type,
we can check its major number against the list of known device
types (cmd->dev_types) directly, so we don't need to go through
the sysfs - we only check the major:minor pair which is a bit
more straightforward and faster. If the dev_types does not have
any info about this device type, the code just fallbacks to
the original sysfs interface to get the partition info.
Changes:
- move device type registration out of "type filter" (filter.c)
to a separate and new dev-type.[ch] for common use throughout the code
- the structure for keeping the major numbers detected for available
device types and available partitioning available is stored in
"dev_types" structure now
- move common partitioning detection code to dev-type.[ch] as well
together with other device-related functions bound to dev_types
(see dev-type.h for the interface)
The dev-type interface contains all common functions used to detect
subsystems/device types, signature/superblock recognition code,
type-specific device properties and other common device properties
(bound to dev_types), including partitioning support.
- add dev_types instance to cmd context as cmd->dev_types for common use
- use cmd->dev_types throughout as a central point for providing
information about device types
Last commit made dump filter only partially composable.
Add remaining functionality and also support composable wipe,
which is needed, when i.e. vgscan needs to remove cache.
(in release fix)
Add a generic dump operation to filters and make the composite filter call
through to its components. Previously, when global filter was set, the code
would treat the toplevel composite filter's private area as if it belonged a
persistent filter, trying to write nonsense into a non-sensical file.
Also deal with NULL cmd->filter gracefully.
For example, the old call and reference:
find_config_tree_str(cmd, "devices/dir", DEFAULT_DEV_DIR)
...now becomes:
find_config_tree_str(cmd, devices_dir_CFG)
So we're referring to the named configuration ID instead
of passing the configuration path and the default value
is taken from central config definition in config_settings.h
automatically.
Use log_warn to print non-fatal warning messages.
Use of log_error would confuse checker for testing
whether proper error has been reported for some real error.
There's no need to have the device open RW while obtaining the readahead value.
The RW open used before caused the CHANGE udev event to be generated if the
WATCH udev rule was set for the underlying device (and that is normally the
case both for non-dm and dm devices by default).
This did not cause any problems before since we were not interested in
*underlying* devices. However, with upcoming changes (autoactivation), we're
watching for events on underlying devices marked as PVs and such a spurious
event could cause the autoactivation code to be triggered. So when trying
to deactivate the volume, we could end up with immediate activation just after
that because of the CHANGE event originated in the WATCH udev rule since the
underlying device was open RW during the deactivation process.
Though maybe a better solution would be to completely filter such spurious
events out of the autoactivation process somehow, it's still useful if there
are as least spurious events generated as possible in the system itself.
Libudev does not provide transactions when querying udev database - once we
get the list of block devices (devices/obtain_device_list_from_udev=1) and
we iterate over the list to get more detailed information about device node
and symlink names used etc., the device could be removed just in between we
get the list and put a query for more info. In this case, libudev returns
NULL value as the device does not exist anymore.
Recently, we've added a warning message to reveal such situations. However,
this could be misleading if the device is not related to the LVM action
we're just processing - the non-related block device could be removed in
parallel and this is not an error but a possible and normal operation.
(N.B. This "missing info" should not happen when devices are related to
the LVM action we're just processing since all such processing should be
synchronized with udev and the udev db must always be in consistent state
after the sync point. But we can't filter this situation out from others,
non-related devices, so we have to lower the message verbosity here for a
general solution.)
Save some relocation entries and use directly char[].
Since we do not need yes more then 127 partitions per device, use just int8_t.
Move lvm_type_filter_destroy into local static function.
Avoid using NULL pointers from udev. It seems like some older versions of udev
were improperly returning NULL in some case, so do not silently break here,
and give at least a warning to the user.
Since the function dev_close() has code path, which really could close
file (for unlocked vg) and destroy dev handler, stay on safe side and move
the close few lines later, even our current use case shouldn't trigger
such scenario.
Since the !(dev->flags & DEV_REGULAR) code path just called
dev_name_confirmed() which has just called 'stat()' inside,
remove duplicate second stat() call here.
When both path have identical prefix i.e. /dev/disk/by-id
skip 2 x lstat() for /dev /dev/disk /dev/disk/by-id
and directly lstat() only different part of the path.
Reduces amount of lstat calls on system with lots of devices.
leaving behind the LVM-specific parts of the code (convenience wrappers that
handle `struct device` and `struct cmd_context`, basically). A number of
functions have been renamed (in addition to getting a dm_ prefix) -- namely,
all of the config interface now has a dm_config_ prefix.
If MD linear device has set rounding (overload chunk size attribute),
the pvcreate command prints this warning:
/dev/md0 sysfs attr level not in expected format: linear
Before, we used vg_write_lock_held call to determnine the way a device is
opened. Unfortunately, this opened many devices in RW mode when it was not
really necessary. With the OPTIONS+="watch" rule used in the udev rules,
this could fire numerous events while closing such devices (and it caused
useless scans from within udev rules in return).
A common bug we hit with this was with the lvremove command which was unable
to remove the LV since it was being opened from within the udev rules. This
patch should minimize such situations (at least with respect to LVM handling
of devices).
Though there's still a possibility someone will open a device 'outside' in
parallel and fire the event based on the watch rule when closing a device
once opened for RW.
Also, add a new 'obtain_device_list_from_udev' setting to lvm.conf with which
we can turn this feature on or off if needed.
If set, the cache of block device nodes with all associated symlinks
will be constructed out of the existing udev database content.
This avoids using and opening any inapplicable non-block devices or
subdirectories found in the device directory. This setting is applied
to udev-managed device directory only, other directories will be scanned
fully. LVM2 needs to be compiled with udev support for this setting to
take effect. N.B. Any device node or symlink not managed by udev in
udev directory will be ignored with this setting on.
Return value of readlink limits valid string size.
Characters after returned size present some garbage to printf.
Fix it by placing '\0' on the return size value.
New strategy for memory locking to decrease the number of call to
to un/lock memory when processing critical lvm functions.
Introducing functions for critical section.
Inside the critical section - memory is always locked.
When leaving the critical section, the memory stays locked
until memlock_unlock() is called - this happens with
sync_local_dev_names() and sync_dev_names() function call.
memlock_reset() is needed to reset locking numbers after fork
(polldaemon).
The patch itself is mostly rename:
memlock_inc -> critical_section_inc
memlock_dec -> critical_section_dec
memlock -> critical_section
Daemons (clmvd, dmevent) are using memlock_daemon_inc&dec
(mlockall()) thus they will never release or relock memory they've
already locked memory.
Macros sync_local_dev_names() and sync_dev_names() are functions.
It's better for debugging - and also we do not need to add memlock.h
to locking.h header (for memlock_unlock() prototyp).
Change API interface to accept even completely const array patterns.
This should present no change for libdm users and allows to pass
pattern arrays without cast to const char **.
To have better control were the config tree could be modified use more
const pointers and very carefully downcast them back to non-const
(for config tree merge).
One shiny day we should use libblkid here. But now using LUKS is
very common together with LVM and pvcreate destroys LUKS completely.
So for user's convenience, try to detect LUKS signature and allow abort.
We can already detect MD devices internally. But when using MD partitions,
these have "block extended major" (blkext) assigned (259). Blkext major
is also used in general, so we need to check whether the original device
is an MD device actually.
Eliminate busy loop during pvcreate of a "normal" partition.
_md_sysfs_attribute_snprintf() would busy loop if the device it was
given was not a blkext-based MD partition.
Rather than being cute with a busy-loop prone 'goto check_md_major' in
_md_sysfs_attribute_snprintf(): explicitly check if the provided device
is a blkext-based partition (blkext_major()); and then check that the
get_primary_dev() determined parent is an MD device (md_major()).
Rename private _primary_dev() to a public get_primary_dev() and reuse it
to allow retrieval of the MD sysfs attributes (raid level, etc) for MD
partitions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Improve lib/device/device.c:_primary_dev()'s ability to look up the
primary device associated with all partitions; including blkext
(e.g. partitions directly on MD). The same will also work for obscure
sysfs paths; e.g.: paths with mangled names like the HP cciss driver
uses: /sys/block/cciss!c0d0/cciss!c0d0p1/
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Adds 'data_alignment_detection' config option to the devices section of
lvm.conf. If your kernel provides topology information in sysfs (linux
>= 2.6.31) for the Physical Volume, the start of data area will be
aligned on a multiple of the ’minimum_io_size’ or ’optimal_io_size’
exposed in sysfs.
minimum_io_size is used if optimal_io_size is undefined (0). If both
md_chunk_alignment and data_alignment_detection are enabled the result
of data_alignment_detection is used.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
If the pvcreate --dataalignmentoffset option is not specified the start
of a PV's aligned data area will be shifted by the associated
'alignment_offset' exposed in sysfs (unless
devices/data_alignment_offset_detection is disabled in lvm.conf).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When we are stacking LV over device, which has for some reason
increased read_ahead (e.g. MD RAID), the read_ahead hint
for libdevmapper is wrong (it is zero).
If the calculated read_ahead hint is zero, patch uses read_ahead of underlying device
(if first segment is PV) when setting DM_READ_AHEAD_MINIMUM_FLAG.
Because we are using dev-cache, it also store this value to cache for future use
(if several LVs are over one PV, BLKRAGET is called only once for underlying device.)
This should fix all the reamining problems with readahead mismatch reported
for DM over MD configurations (and similar cases).
The warning is bogus and is only seen on certain versions of gcc.
However using the enum does seem to clarify the intent of the code - only
3 possible md minor superblock versions.
Related compiler warning:
device/dev-md.c:53: warning: 'sb_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function
* lib/device/dev-io.c (dev_open_flags):
Use log_sys_error after failed stat to report strerror(errno).
Use a slightly different diagnostic to report mismatched device number.
event-driven model. Without changes to the way the cache gets updated, the
option is currently unreliable without a global lock to prevent any lvm2
commands from running concurrently.
Additional verbosity level -vvvv includes line numbers and backtraces.
Verbose messages now go to stderr not stdout.
Close any stray file descriptors before starting.
Refine partitionable checks for certain device types.
Allow devices/types to override built-ins.
Clear many compiler warnings (i386) & associated bugs - hopefully without
introducing too many new bugs:-) (Same exercise required for other archs.)
Default compilation has optimisation - or else use ./configure --enable-debug
Lots of changes/very little testing so far => there'll be bugs!
Use 'vgcreate -M text' to create a volume group with its metadata stored
in text files. Text format metadata changes should be reasonably atomic,
with a (basic) automatic recovery mechanism if the system crashes while a
change is in progress.
Add a metadata section to lvm.conf to specify multiple directories if
you want (recommended) to keep multiple copies of the metadata (eg on
different filesystems).
e.g. metadata {
dirs = ["/etc/lvm/metadata1","/usr/local/lvm/metadata2"]
}
Plenty of refinements still in the pipeline.
Patrick, can you see if this fixes your cluster syncing problem please ?
If so I'll make it so it only syncs if you have actually written to the
device.
This should be a rare occurrence so the aim is to recover if it's
straightforward to do so, otherwise just to abort the operation.
If people *knowingly* change device names, they should always run vgscan
afterwards.
A few bytes of memory gets leaked inside a pool each time an alias
has to be discarded - it's not worth restructuring the code to reuse it.
More of LVM2 needs updating to pass device objects (or uuids) about
instead of pathnames so that resolution of pathname->object only happens
once per operation.
dev_cache_get() should now always return the *current* device at the path given
dev_name_confirmed() replaces dev_name() whenever it's important to
know that name for the device is still current (ie when opening it).
If the cache doesn't know a current name, the function fails.
dev_open() guarantees that the file descriptor returned is for the dev_t
of the device structure it was passed.
o When opening device, return error if its cached name is incorrect (eg if
it's changed since the cache was generated). This prevents use until
the cache is rebuilt (eg with vgscan). Doesn't catch every case.
o updated vgcfgrestore args
o change _check_for_open_devices only to check devices present in the hash
table instead of using dev_iter which triggers a full scan even when only
displaying command line help
o roll vgcache back to agk's implementation, we'll revisit this as part
of the cluster integration.
o change the extra_info field in a label to be a void *
