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Author SHA1 Message Date
Zdenek Kabelac
e3a2f7b8ee cleanup: typos man pages 2024-08-30 16:51:15 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
39b7d1ba8f cleanup: typos in comments
Collection of typos in code comments.
Should have no runtime effect.
2024-08-30 16:51:15 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
b53a2ae2a4
tools: vgscan: accept --refresh option 2024-08-14 15:12:59 +02:00
David Teigland
78d14a805c integrity: add --integritysettings for tuning
The option can be used in multiple ways (like --cachesettings):

--integritysettings key=val
--integritysettings 'key1=val1 key2=val2'
--integritysettings key1=val1 --integritysettings key2=val2

Use with lvcreate or lvconvert when integrity is first enabled
to configure:
journal_sectors
journal_watermark
commit_time
bitmap_flush_interval
allow_discards

Use with lvchange to configure (only while inactive):
journal_watermark
commit_time
bitmap_flush_interval
allow_discards

lvchange --integritysettings "" clears any previously configured
settings, so dm-integrity will use its own defaults.

lvs -a -o integritysettings displays configured settings.
2024-08-07 17:40:34 -05:00
David Teigland
c609dedc2f Allow system.devices to be automatically created on first boot
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.
2024-05-21 16:29:12 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
5aff63c07b commands: enable more options for vdo conversion
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.
2024-05-10 01:15:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
e02695cb45 lvonvert: support control over wipingsignature
When converting volume to a thin-pool allow control over
signature wiping.

TODO: likely should become more commonly supported option...
2024-05-04 00:57:52 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
1ab66f37ae command-lines: improve spec for thin snapshot
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.
2024-05-02 12:04:07 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
38cc021d67 cmdlines: use OO_LVCREATE_RAID
Common options in one OO_
2024-04-26 21:37:52 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
41e0a93a8f cmdlines: simplify OO_LVCONVER/LVCREATE_THINPOOL
OO_LVCONVERT_THINPOOL always constains OO_LVCONVERT_POOL
OO_LVCREATE_THINPOOL always contains OO_LVCREATE_POOL

More readable description.
2024-04-26 21:37:51 +02:00
David Teigland
f4911177da lvcreate: allow raidintegrity option with implicit raid type
Allow "lvcreate -m1 --raidintegrity y" when raid1 is used, but
not explicit on the command line.
2024-04-17 13:40:33 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4ad98540bc lvmcmdline: support --pooldatavdo
Extend definitions for lvcreate & lvconvert to support
new option  --pooldatavdo y|n  with thinpools.
2024-01-10 14:02:22 +01:00
David Teigland
622284740a pvs, pvscan: new option -A to show PVs outside the devices file
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.)
2023-11-16 08:45:46 -06:00
David Teigland
37773c1055 lvmdevices: new output and options for check and update
- 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
2023-11-02 11:46:31 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
aa7f2ac954 lvconvert: thin conversion accept passed PVs
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.
2023-09-03 22:03:33 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
14d0a9eef6
report: support printing full column names in report headings
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.
2023-08-28 15:44:57 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
23019946c2 lvconvert: vdo needs writable LV 2023-08-14 17:02:11 +02:00
David Teigland
7cc414135a lvmdevices: add --delnotfound to delete entries for missing devices
Used with update: lvmdevices --update --delnotfound.
Removes all devices file entries for which no matching device is found.
2023-07-24 14:56:32 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f078ffc5e6 lvconvert: add support --setactivationskip
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.
2023-07-17 12:44:23 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
39457234db lvconvert: support conversion to thin volume
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.
2023-07-10 17:13:32 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
e36028b7d2 cache: update validation rules
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.
2023-07-10 17:13:32 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
88f1e7a9a7 cache: support more segtypes for caching
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.
2023-07-10 17:13:32 +02:00
David Teigland
ea6b5b694b lvcreate: allow thin snapshot syntax that broke
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.
2023-06-20 15:47:01 -05:00
David Teigland
390ff5be2f raidintegrity: allow writecache and cache
Allow writecache|cache over raid+integrity LV.
2023-04-05 14:24:07 -05:00
David Teigland
aa85ed1784 vgchange: allow changing system ID with majority of PVs
when used with --majoritypvs.  This allows the fail-over
of a VG between systems by changing the VG system ID when
a PV is missing.
2023-03-08 16:30:54 -06:00
David Teigland
81f10c1d1e vgchange systemid: use tag or select
The command can do this but the command defs
were missing the annotation to allow it.
2022-10-31 08:54:33 -05:00
David Teigland
264827cb98 lvresize: add new options and defaults for fs handling
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.
2022-09-13 15:15:05 -05:00
David Teigland
18722dfdf4 lvresize: restructure code
Rewrite top level resize function to prepare for adding
new fs resizing.
2022-09-09 16:18:55 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
b4cc28c2ef lvmconfig: add --valuesonly option
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"
2022-08-17 10:47:24 +02:00
David Teigland
db5277c971 pvdisplay: restore --reportformat option
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.
2022-06-24 10:40:54 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
5e060b8fa7 vdo: support --vdosettings
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.
2022-05-03 19:09:52 +02:00
David Teigland
fb7698b0ce lvmdevices: --deldev using device id
When used with --deviceidtype, --deldev can specify
a device id to remove.
2022-04-06 12:51:34 -05:00
David Teigland
b8f4ec846d display: ignore --reportformat
Using the option would do nothing useful but would
print extraneous braces.
2021-11-17 10:40:27 -06:00
David Teigland
d558b3ad7e vgchange -aay: optimize device scan using pvs_online files
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
2021-11-04 11:08:38 -05:00
David Teigland
bbf8e7db74 logging: to the systemd journal
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
2021-10-07 12:06:49 -05:00
David Teigland
0b6782fa01 pvscan: add options listlvs listvg checkcomplete
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
2021-10-07 12:06:49 -05:00
David Teigland
8935dfee56 lvmdevices: allow deviceidtype with addpvid
in addition to using with adddev
2021-09-13 14:11:07 -05:00
David Teigland
9857b5a3dc add --nohints option
The command will not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs.
It will still do standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.
2021-09-13 10:55:07 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4b856476e9 vgmerge: support option --poolmetadataspare 2021-07-23 16:36:31 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
2132fdc11f vgsplit: add support for option --poolmetadataspare
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.
2021-07-21 15:56:33 +02:00
David Teigland
440d6ae79f lvmdevices: add deviceidtype option
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.
2021-06-11 13:27:18 -05:00
David Teigland
a65f8e0a62 enable command syntax for thin and writecache
converting an LV with a writecache to thin pool data in
addition to previous attaching writecache to thin pool data
2021-05-24 16:09:35 -05:00
David Teigland
6b00c8c910 writecache: allow attaching to thin pool data 2021-05-06 16:23:03 -05:00
David Teigland
d651b340e6 commands: use AUTOTYPE in definitions
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.
2021-04-21 08:41:37 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b1ad32acd6 commands: update definitions for thin creation
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.
2021-04-19 14:40:14 +02:00
David Teigland
0a28e3c44b Add metadata-based autoactivation property for VG and LV
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.
2021-04-07 15:32:49 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
1c3774c7a8 pool: allow data on zero and error segtypes
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.
2021-03-18 18:57:45 +01:00
David Teigland
83fe6e720f device usage based on devices file
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
2021-02-23 16:43:32 -06:00
David Teigland
9e836c77a0 command defs: add missing commas
even though the parser seems to work fine without them
2021-02-22 10:44:01 -06:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a915cd5a46 lvconvert: vdo may convert already formated vdo
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.
2021-02-17 11:21:35 +01:00