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An OS installer can create system.devices for the system and
disks, but an OS image cannot create the system-specific
system.devices. The OS image can instead configure the
image so that lvm will create system.devices on first boot.
Image preparation steps to enable auto creation of system.devices:
- create empty file /etc/lvm/devices/auto-import-rootvg
- remove any existing /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices
- enable lvm-devices-import.path
- enable lvm-devices-import.service
On first boot of the prepared image:
- udev triggers vgchange -aay --autoactivation event <rootvg>
- vgchange activates LVs in the root VG
- vgchange finds the file /etc/lvm/devices/auto-import-rootvg,
and no /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices, so it creates
/run/lvm/lvm-devices-import
- lvm-devices-import.path is run when /run/lvm/lvm-devices-import
appears, and triggers lvm-devices-import.service
- lvm-devices-import.service runs vgimportdevices --rootvg --auto
- vgimportdevices finds /etc/lvm/devices/auto-import-rootvg,
and no system.devices, so it creates system.devices containing
PVs in the root VG, and removes /etc/lvm/devices/auto-import-rootvg
and /run/lvm/lvm-devices-import
Run directly, vgimportdevices --rootvg (without --auto), will create
a new system.devices for the root VG, or will add devices for the
root VG to an existing system.devices.
Update definitions to add support for some more VDO options
when converting volumes to be used as thin-pool with vdo data volume.
Split some option in existing OO_LVCONVERT_VDO to OO_LVCONVERT_VDO_POOL
and reused then with OO_LVCONVERT_THINPOOL.
man-generate --check actually noticed 2 same definitions
for snapshot create with 'lvreate -T [--snapshot]'
and 'lvcreate --snapshot [-T]'.
So drop the '-T' from second alternative variant as
thin type is already implied here.
pvs -A|--allpvs
Show PVs that would otherwise be excluded by the devices file.
pvscan -A|--allpvs
Show PVs that would otherwise be excluded by the devices file.
For those devices that are included by the devices file,
their device ID is displayed in place of the usual "lvm2"
format and size.
(pvs -a|--all is unchanged, and shows devices not formatted as PVs.)
- add new comparison between old and new entries, and use this
as the basis for new dedicated output for check and update
- add new --refresh option to search for missing PVIDs on all
devices, and possibly update the device ID
- internally, only use the term "refresh" for cases where a
new device ID may be found and assigned for a missing PVID
When creating thin pool or check pool there is allocated LV
for metadata and for such allocation user should be able to
specify list of PVs on cmdline.
Also fix unused passed list of PV for thick to thin conversion,
where the code was using whole PV set from a VG (but since it's
been not enabled on cmdline, user could not hit this issue).
Also remove unneeded initialization of use_pvh.
Reuse existing report/headings config setting to make it possible to
change the type of headings to display:
0 - no headings
1 - column name abbreviations (default and original functionality)
2 - full column names (column names are equal to exact names that
-o|--options also accepts to set report output)
Also, add '--headings none|abbrev|full|0|1|2' command line option
so we are able to select the heading type for each LVM reporting
command directly.
When repair thinpool or cachepool, lvm2 leaves original metadata
volume backup. To avoid potential damage of those data, mark such
volume as 'read-only' and also allow user to use --setactivationskip
option for this volume.
TODO: likely better default would be to automatically skip, but
that might need some more thinking about recovery reporting doc.
Update pool conversion function to handle also conversion of
thick LV to thin LV by moving thick LV into thin pool data LV
and creating fully provissioned thin LV on top of this volume.
Reworking existing conversion to use insert_layer_for_lv co
the uuid is now kept with thin-pool - this should however not
really matter as we are doing full deactivation & activation cycle.
With conversion to thin LV user can use same set of arguments
to set chunk-size.
TODO: add some smart code to decide best values for chunks sizes.
Validate cache origin in front of the prompt.
Also add some rules to command description file.
TODO:
more validation needed also for lvcreate,
more complex rules with "OR" seems to be needed.
Enable support to cache thin/error/zero virtual targets.
Use can now select whether he want to cache whole thin-pool,
or an individual thin volume out of whole thin-pool.
Support using zero and error LVs as data volume for
cachepool is possibly useful for benchmarking, not much
can be expected from such setup.
The command "lvcreate --type thin --snapshot ..." to create a thin
snapshot would fail.
commit d651b340e6 removed the optional
"--type thin" from the command definition "lvcreate --snapshot LV_thin",
and added --type thin as AUTOTYPE. This was correct and should not have
changed anything if all the command defs were correct, but it broke
the "lvcreate --type thin --snapshot" case. It reveals a problem in a
different command definintion: "lvcreate --type thin LV_thin" that was
missing --snapshot in its OO list.
The new option "--fs String" for lvresize/lvreduce/lvextend
controls the handling of file systems before/after resizing
the LV. --resizefs is the same as --fs resize.
The new option "--fsmode String" can be used to control
mounting and unmounting of the fs during resizing.
Possible --fs values:
checksize
Only applies to reducing size; does nothing for extend.
Check the fs size and reduce the LV if the fs is not using
the affected space, i.e. the fs does not need to be shrunk.
Fail the command without reducing the fs or LV if the fs is
using the affected space.
resize
Resize the fs using the fs-specific resize command.
This may include mounting, unmounting, or running fsck.
See --fsmode to control mounting behavior, and --nofsck to
disable fsck.
resize_fsadm
Use the old method of calling fsadm to handle the fs
(deprecated.) Warning: this option does not prevent lvreduce
from destroying file systems that are unmounted (or mounted
if prompts are skipped.)
ignore
Resize the LV without checking for or handling a file system.
Warning: using ignore when reducing the LV size may destroy the
file system.
Possible --fsmode values:
manage
Mount or unmount the fs as needed to resize the fs,
and attempt to restore the original mount state at the end.
nochange
Do not mount or unmount the fs. If mounting or unmounting
is required to resize the fs, then do not resize the fs or
the LV and fail the command.
offline
Unmount the fs if it is mounted, and resize the fs while it
is unmounted. If mounting is required to resize the fs,
then do not resize the fs or the LV and fail the command.
Notes on lvreduce:
When no --fs or --resizefs option is specified:
. lvextend default behavior is fs ignore.
. lvreduce default behavior is fs checksize
(includes activating the LV.)
With the exception of --fs resize_fsadm|ignore, lvreduce requires
the recent libblkid fields FSLASTBLOCK and FSBLOCKSIZE.
FSLASTBLOCK*FSBLOCKSIZE is the last byte used by the fs on the LV,
which determines if reducing the fs is necessary.
The new --valuesonly option causes the lvmconfig output to contain only
values without keys for each config node. This is practical mainly in
case where we use lvmconfig in scripts and we want to assign the value
to a different custom key or simply output the value itself without the
key.
For example:
# lvmconfig --type full activation/raid_fault_policy
raid_fault_policy="warn"
# lvmconfig --type full activation/raid_fault_policy --valuesonly
"warn"
# my_var=$(lvmconfig --type full activation/raid_fault_policy --valuesonly)
# echo $my_var
"warn"
Fixes commit b8f4ec846 "display: ignore --reportformat"
by restoring the --reportformat option to pvdisplay.
Adding -C to pvdisplay turns the command into a reporting
command (like pvs, vgs, lvs) in which --reportformat can
be useful.
Allow to use --vdosettings with lvcreate,lvconvert,lvchange.
Support settings currenly only configurable via lvm.conf.
With lvchange we require inactivate LV for changes to be applied.
Settings block_map_era_length has supported alias block_map_period.
Port the old pvscan -aay scanning optimization to vgchange -aay.
The optimization uses pvs_online files created by pvscan --cache
to derive a list of devices to use when activating a VG. This
allows autoactivation of a VG to avoid scanning all devices, and
only scan the devices used by the VG itself. The optimization is
applied internally using the device hints interface.
The new option "--autoactivation event" is given to pvscan and
vgchange commands that are called by event activation. This
informs the command that it is being used for event activation,
so that it can apply checks and optimizations that are specific
to event activation. Those include:
- skipping the command if lvm.conf event_activation=0
- checking that a VG is complete before activating it
- using pvs_online files to limit device scanning
Configure via lvm.conf log/journal or command line --journal.
Possible values:
"command" records command information.
"output" records default command output.
"debug" records full command debugging.
Multiple values can be set in lvm.conf as an array.
One value can be set in --journal which is added to
values set in lvm.conf
pvscan --cache <dev>
. read only dev
. create online file for dev
pvscan --listvg <dev>
. read only dev
. list VG using dev
pvscan --listlvs <dev>
. read only dev
. list VG using dev
. list LVs using dev
pvscan --cache --listvg [--checkcomplete] <dev>
. read only dev
. create online file for dev
. list VG using dev
. [check online files and report if VG is complete]
pvscan --cache --listlvs [--checkcomplete] <dev>
. read only dev
. create online file for dev
. list VG using dev
. list LVs using dev
. [check online files and report if VG is complete]
. [check online files and report if LVs are complete]
[--vgonline]
can be used with --checkcomplete, to enable use of a vg online
file. This results in only the first pvscan command to see
the complete VG to report 'VG complete', and others will report
'VG finished'. This allows the caller to easily run a single
activation of the VG.
[--udevoutput]
can be used with --cache --listvg --checkcomplete, to enable
an output mode that prints LVM_VG_NAME_COMPLETE='vgname' that
a udev rule can import, and prevents other output from the
command (other output causes udev to ignore the command.)
The list of complete LVs is meant to be passed to lvchange -aay,
or the complete VG used with vgchange -aay.
When --checkcomplete is used, lvm assumes that that the output
will be used to trigger event-based autoactivation, so the pvscan
does nothing if event_activation=0 and --checkcomplete is used.
Example of listlvs
------------------
$ lvs -a vg -olvname,devices
LV Devices
lv_a /dev/loop0(0)
lv_ab /dev/loop0(1),/dev/loop1(1)
lv_abc /dev/loop0(3),/dev/loop1(3),/dev/loop2(1)
lv_b /dev/loop1(0)
lv_c /dev/loop2(0)
$ pvscan --cache --listlvs --checkcomplete /dev/loop0
pvscan[35680] PV /dev/loop0 online, VG vg incomplete (need 2).
VG vg incomplete
LV vg/lv_a complete
LV vg/lv_ab incomplete
LV vg/lv_abc incomplete
$ pvscan --cache --listlvs --checkcomplete /dev/loop1
pvscan[35681] PV /dev/loop1 online, VG vg incomplete (need 1).
VG vg incomplete
LV vg/lv_b complete
LV vg/lv_ab complete
LV vg/lv_abc incomplete
$ pvscan --cache --listlvs --checkcomplete /dev/loop2
pvscan[35682] PV /dev/loop2 online, VG vg is complete.
VG vg complete
LV vg/lv_c complete
LV vg/lv_abc complete
Example of listvg
-----------------
$ pvscan --cache --listvg --checkcomplete /dev/loop0
pvscan[35684] PV /dev/loop0 online, VG vg incomplete (need 2).
VG vg incomplete
$ pvscan --cache --listvg --checkcomplete /dev/loop1
pvscan[35685] PV /dev/loop1 online, VG vg incomplete (need 1).
VG vg incomplete
$ pvscan --cache --listvg --checkcomplete /dev/loop2
pvscan[35686] PV /dev/loop2 online, VG vg is complete.
VG vg complete
When splitting VG with thin/cache pool volume, handle pmspare during
such split and allocate new pmspare in new VG or extend existing pmspare
there and eventually drop pmspare in original VG if is no longer needed
there.
When adding a device to the devices file with --adddev, lvm
by default chooses the best device ID type for the new device.
The new --deviceidtype option allows the user to override the
built in preference. This is useful if there's a problem with
the default type, or if a secondary type is preferrable.
If the specified deviceidtype does not produce a device ID,
then lvm falls back to the preference it would otherwise use.
If a cmd def implies an LV type without --type
in the required options, then include the implied
type in the cmd def as AUTOTYPE: <type>
instead of including the redundant --type foo
in the OO list of options.
Including an implied --type in the OO list would
often cause multiple cmd defs to potentially be
identical when options were used, and a user
command could match more than one cmd def.
The AUTOTYPE values are listed in man page and
help output as
[ --type foo (implied) ]
If a user command includes --type, it will usually
match a cmd def with --type in the required options.
But, if the user command matches a cmd def with
AUTOTYPE, then the specifed --type and AUTOTYPE must
match.
The man-generator program has a new --check
option that compares cmd defs to find any cmd defs
that are equivalent with the use of options,
and should have their options adjusted.
Add missing VG into description of thin pool creation command.
Remove one duplicated thin-pool creation command.
Remove options --discards and --errorwhenfull from the list when the command describes
only creation of a thin volume - as these options do apply for thin-pool.
Also use here more correct name OO_LVCONVERT_THINPOOL instead of OO_LVCONVERT_THIN.
Reorder extra options for cache & thin-pool before common pool options.
Order consistenly --stripes and --stripesize after --extents option
so the options related to pools are better together.
Remove invalid snapshot creation description - since this case is
handled through our configurable spare volume creation.
Add some missing optional --type parameters for few command instancies.
The autoactivation property can be specified in lvcreate
or vgcreate for new LVs/VGs, and the property can be changed
by lvchange or vgchange for existing LVs/VGs.
--setautoactivation y|n
enables|disables autoactivation of a VG or LV.
Autoactivation is enabled by default, which is consistent with
past behavior. The disabled state is stored as a new flag
in the VG metadata, and the absence of the flag allows
autoactivation.
If autoactivation is disabled for the VG, then no LVs in the VG
will be autoactivated (the LV autoactivation property will have
no effect.) When autoactivation is enabled for the VG, then
autoactivation can be controlled on individual LVs.
The state of this property can be reported for LVs/VGs using
the "-o autoactivation" option in lvs/vgs commands, which will
report "enabled", or "" for the disabled state.
Previous versions of lvm do not recognize this property. Since
autoactivation is enabled by default, the disabled setting will
have no effect in older lvm versions. If the VG is modified by
older lvm versions, the disabled state will also be dropped from
the metadata.
The autoactivation property is an alternative to using the lvm.conf
auto_activation_volume_list, which is still applied to to VGs/LVs
in addition to the new property.
If VG or LV autoactivation is disabled either in metadata or in
auto_activation_volume_list, it will not be autoactivated.
An autoactivation command will silently skip activating an LV
when the autoactivation property is disabled.
To determine the effective autoactivation behavior for a specific
LV, multiple settings would need to be checked:
the VG autoactivation property, the LV autoactivation property,
the auto_activation_volume_list. The "activation skip" property
would also be relevant, since it applies to both normal and auto
activation.
Renables usage of --type zero and --type error LVs to serve as
backend for _tdata device. Clearly not very useful in practice,
as it can't store any real data, but usable for some testing
and some sort of perfomance checking.
lvcreate --type zero -L1T -n pool vg
lvconvert --thinpool vg/pool
Will create a thin-pool with zero device backend.
The LVM devices file lists devices that lvm can use. The default
file is /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices, and the lvmdevices(8)
command is used to add or remove device entries. If the file
does not exist, or if lvm.conf includes use_devicesfile=0, then
lvm will not use a devices file. When the devices file is in use,
the regex filter is not used, and the filter settings in lvm.conf
or on the command line are ignored.
LVM records devices in the devices file using hardware-specific
IDs, such as the WWID, and attempts to use subsystem-specific
IDs for virtual device types. These device IDs are also written
in the VG metadata. When no hardware or virtual ID is available,
lvm falls back using the unstable device name as the device ID.
When devnames are used, lvm performs extra scanning to find
devices if their devname changes, e.g. after reboot.
When proper device IDs are used, an lvm command will not look
at devices outside the devices file, but when devnames are used
as a fallback, lvm will scan devices outside the devices file
to locate PVs on renamed devices. A config setting
search_for_devnames can be used to control the scanning for
renamed devname entries.
Related to the devices file, the new command option
--devices <devnames> allows a list of devices to be specified for
the command to use, overriding the devices file. The listed
devices act as a sort of devices file in terms of limiting which
devices lvm will see and use. Devices that are not listed will
appear to be missing to the lvm command.
Multiple devices files can be kept in /etc/lvm/devices, which
allows lvm to be used with different sets of devices, e.g.
system devices do not need to be exposed to a specific application,
and the application can use lvm on its own set of devices that are
not exposed to the system. The option --devicesfile <filename> is
used to select the devices file to use with the command. Without
the option set, the default system devices file is used.
Setting --devicesfile "" causes lvm to not use a devices file.
An existing, empty devices file means lvm will see no devices.
The new command vgimportdevices adds PVs from a VG to the devices
file and updates the VG metadata to include the device IDs.
vgimportdevices -a will import all VGs into the system devices file.
LVM commands run by dmeventd not use a devices file by default,
and will look at all devices on the system. A devices file can
be created for dmeventd (/etc/lvm/devices/dmeventd.devices) If
this file exists, lvm commands run by dmeventd will use it.
Internal implementaion:
- device_ids_read - read the devices file
. add struct dev_use (du) to cmd->use_devices for each devices file entry
- dev_cache_scan - get /dev entries
. add struct device (dev) to dev_cache for each device on the system
- device_ids_match - match devices file entries to /dev entries
. match each du on cmd->use_devices to a dev in dev_cache, using device ID
. on match, set du->dev, dev->id, dev->flags MATCHED_USE_ID
- label_scan - read lvm headers and metadata from devices
. filters are applied, those that do not need data from the device
. filter-deviceid skips devs without MATCHED_USE_ID, i.e.
skips /dev entries that are not listed in the devices file
. read lvm label from dev
. filters are applied, those that use data from the device
. read lvm metadata from dev
. add info/vginfo structs for PVs/VGs (info is "lvmcache")
- device_ids_find_renamed_devs - handle devices with unstable devname ID
where devname changed
. this step only needed when devs do not have proper device IDs,
and their dev names change, e.g. after reboot sdb becomes sdc.
. detect incorrect match because PVID in the devices file entry
does not match the PVID found when the device was read above
. undo incorrect match between du and dev above
. search system devices for new location of PVID
. update devices file with new devnames for PVIDs on renamed devices
. label_scan the renamed devs
- continue with command processing
User use 'lvconvert -Zn --type vdo-pool' to convert an existing
vdo formated volume and skip lvm2 internal formating.
This however requires user is passing proper matching parameters.
For them user can use --profile|--metadataprofile option whos
support has been also enhanced.
TODO: add support to read values directly from formated volume.
When converting an existing LV to thin-pool,
user may now pass also '--errorwhenfull' option
like with 'lvcreate'.
Also recalculate chunksize when performace profile is
used with conversion (again matching lvcreate).
Adds missing flagging for uncropped metadata sizes.
When detaching a writecache, use the cleaner setting
by default to writeback data prior to suspending the
lv to detach the writecache. This avoids potentially
blocking for a long period with the device suspended.
Detaching a writecache first sets the cleaner option, waits
for a short period of time (less than a second), and checks
if the writecache has quickly become clean. If so, the
writecache is detached immediately. This optimizes the case
where little writeback is needed.
If the writecache does not quickly become clean, then the
detach command leaves the writecache attached with the
cleaner option set. This leaves the LV in the same state
as if the user had set the cleaner option directly with
lvchange --cachesettings cleaner=1 LV.
After leaving the LV with the cleaner option set, the
detach command will wait and watch the writeback progress,
and will finally detach the writecache when the writeback
is finished. The detach command does not need to wait
during the writeback phase, and can be canceled, in which
case the LV will remain with the writecache attached and
the cleaner option set. When the user runs the detach
command again it will complete the detach.
To detach a writecache directly, without using the cleaner
step (which has been the approach previously), add the
option --cachesettings cleaner=0 to the detach command.
