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Zdenek Kabelac
462835faa0 Switch to return void
List delete cannot fail, so there is no reason to test for error.
2012-02-08 12:52:58 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d75c5f06f0 Replace snprintf with dm_snprintf
snprintf testing for negative is replaced with dm_snprintf where this
test really works.
Add missing test for result of dm_snprintf().
2012-02-08 11:40:02 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
b167ca28b0 Adjust comments 2012-02-01 15:05:53 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
42b5c54092 Add synchornization point in mirror log init.
Put extra sync point when mirror log is deactivated and before
it's activated for the second time.
2012-02-01 13:50:36 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
682309e0b8 Disallow 'mirrored' log for cluster mirrors.
Git commit ID 0864378250 was meant to disallow
'mirrored' logs for cluster mirrors.  However, when add_mirror_log is used
to create the log (as is now the case when using 'lvcreate' or converting only
the log) the check is bypassed.

This patch adds the check to add_mirror_log.
2011-10-25 13:17:04 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
b19f01212e Fix splitmirror in cluster having different DM/LVM views of storage.
This patch also does some clean-up of the splitmirrors code.

I've attempted to clean-up the splitmirrors code to make it easier to
understand with fewer operations.  I've tried to reduce the number of
metadata operations without compromising the intermediate stages which
are necessary for easy clean-up in the even of failure.

These changes now correctly handle cluster situations - including exclusive
cluster mirrors.  Whereas before, a splitmirror operation would result in
remote nodes having LVM commands report the newly split LV with a proper
name while DM commands would report the old (pre-split) names of the device.
IOW, there was a kernel/userspace mismatch.
2011-10-06 14:55:39 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
6c0b0e5d9a Revert initial solution to bug 733114 - I/O error message during splitmirror
The original commit comments can be located via this git commit ID:
	7d8e615c0b

There were three possible solutions to the original problem proposed in the
initial check-in.  The one chosen was as follows:
    2) Do like _remove_mirror_images does and suspend the original, then suspend
    the sub-lv (the error target), then resume the sub-lv, and finally resume the
    original LV.  This seems like extra pointless operations to me, but it doesn't
    produce the error message (although, I'm not sure why) and it allows us to
    leave the visible flag in place.
Turns out, the cluster also views the extra suspend/resume operations as
pointless too and ignores them.  So, this solution doesn't work in a cluster.
Further, I've noticed that in addition to the remote cluster nodes still getting
I/O errors from scanning the error target, they also have a different LVM and
DM views of the same LV.  IOW, while the LVM level (gotten from the LVM metadata)
sees the correct name for the newly split LV, device-mapper still maintains the
old names.

Because the original fix failed to completely fix the problem (or work-around it)
and because a better solution must be found to address the additional cluster
issue of device renaming, I am reverting the above mentioned commit.
2011-10-06 14:49:16 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
4026cb6fd1 fix compiler warning.
Compiler says variable may be used uninitialized.  It can't be, but we
initialize the variable to NULL anyway.  Also, remove the double initialization
of another variable.
2011-09-19 14:28:23 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
a514067448 After suspend/resume following a splitmirror op, call sync_local_dev_names
to settle udev before calling deactivate_lv.

This is an intra-release regression (no WHATS_NEW entry required).  It is
part of the fix for the current WHATS_NEW entry:
  Work around resume_lv causing error LV scanning during splitmirror operation.
2011-09-16 16:41:37 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3e25de05a9 Add missing underscores to local static functions 2011-09-14 09:54:21 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
462579d54e Additional fixes for lv_mirror_count.
Changing lv_mirror_count to only count the AREA_LVs made the function
stop working for PVMOVE mirrors.  A conditional has been added to fix
that problem.  Additionally, when counting the images in a mirror stack,
we don't need to subtract 1 from the count we get back from the
lv_mirror_count call on the temporary mirror layer.  (This is because we
are no falsely counting the top layer of the temporary mirror.)
2011-09-14 04:10:26 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
9cb27929e9 Fix for bug 734252 - problem up converting striped mirror after image failure
lv_mirror_count was not able to handle mirrors of stripes properly.  When a
failed device is removed, the MIRRORED status flag is removed from the LV
conditionally based on the results of lv_mirror_count.  However, lv_mirror_count
trusted the MIRRORED flag - thinking any such LV must be mirrored.  It would
happily assign first_seg(lv)->area_count as the number of mirrors, but when
a mirrored striped LV was reduced to a simple striped LV area_count would be
the number of /stripes/ not the number of /mirrors/.  A result higher than 1
would be returned from lv_mirror_count, the MIRRORED flag would not be cleared,
and the LV would fail to be up-converted properly in lvconvert_mirrors_aux
because of it.
2011-09-14 02:45:36 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
46f0efbfce Fix bug 733400 - Mirror down conversion when specifying the secondary leg is broke
The operation of deactivating the residual error target LV after removing a
mirror layer can cause a "device in-use" conflict with udev.  Giving udev a
poke before calling deactivate_lv eliminates the conflict.  The stick used
to poke udev is 'sync_local_dev_names'.
2011-09-13 21:13:33 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
f5e43f061a Better fix for bug 737125 - unable to create mirror on 1K extent size VG
WHATS_NEW entry:
Fix log size calculation when only a log is being added to a mirror.

The original fix pass the mirror LV to allocate_extents (rather than
passing NULL) so that _alloc_init could correctly determine the necessary
size of the mirror log.  In the previous check-in, I noted:
    In order to get a decent value computed, we need to pass in the 'lv' argument
    to allocate_extents.  This would normally imply a desire for cling/contiguous
    allocation to the given LV, but since we are not allocating any parallel
    extents and only log extents, it works fine.
However, passing in the LV did have unintended consequences on the placement of
the log.  The better solution is to pass in the number of extext that are in
the mirror LV instead of the LV itself.  This will not cause the allocator to
reserve that number of extents, because 'stripes' and 'mirrors' are specified
as 0.  Thus, 'extents' is used to calculate the size of the log, but won't
affect how much is allocated.
2011-09-13 18:11:38 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
cc9dc919e6 Fix for bug 737125 - unable to create mirror on 1K extent size VG
_alloc_init calculates the number of necessary log extents via
'mirror_log_extents'.  'mirror_log_extents' takes 3 arguments: region_size,
pe_size, and size of the mirror LV.  Unfortunately, _alloc_init is guessing at
the mirror size by using 'ah->new_extents / ah->area_multiple' - the number of
extents that the mirror images have.  However, this is /always/ wrong when
allocating the log separately.  Further, the log is always allocated separately
unless we are up-converting the mirror at the same time.  It was by luck alone
that a default value of '1' reflects what we want in most cases.

In order to get a decent value computed, we need to pass in the 'lv' argument
to allocate_extents.  This would normally imply a desire for cling/contiguous
allocation to the given LV, but since we are not allocating any parallel
extents and only log extents, it works fine.
2011-09-13 14:37:48 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
6d0aa801a0 Fix for bug 733114.
When an image is split from a 2-way mirror, the original mirror is converted to
a linear device.  To do this, the top "layer" must be removed.  The segments
are transferred from the sub-lv to the top-level LV and the link is severed.
The former sub-lv - having its segments transferred - now contains a temporary
error target.

When the original LV is resumed, the old sub-lv that now contains an error
segment is activated and scanned.  This is what causes the I/O error messages.
There are three ways to fix this problem:

1) Do not set the sub-lv which contains the error target as "visible" before
suspending the original LV.  This way, when the original is resumed, the sub-lv
device node is not created and it is not scanned - avoiding the error messages.
 The problem with this approach is that if the machine crashes after the
resume, it leaves the *hidden* LV in place and the user has a more difficult
time noticing that it needs to be cleaned up.  Thus, this type of processing is
frowned upon.

2) Do like _remove_mirror_images does and suspend the original, then suspend
the sub-lv (the error target), then resume the sub-lv, and finally resume the
original LV.  This seems like extra pointless operations to me, but it does not
produce the error message (although, I'm not sure why) and it allows us to
leave the visible flag in place.

3) Flag the sub-lv (error target) with a "do not scan" flag.  This seems like
the cleanest approach, but I have been unable to find the method for doing
this.  LVs get tagged in such a way by _get_udev_flags, but in this case the
resume of the original LV also resumes the error target LV without running it
through _get_udev_flags (likely because they are no longer linked).  Could
there be something wrong in resume_lv?

Option #2 was chosen to fix this bug, but it seems like more of a workaround
for now.
2011-09-13 13:59:19 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
b88362ff95 add thin_manip.c like the other manip files
move basic lv_is_* to macros
data_lv -> pool_lv - we decided to call it 'pool' everywhere now
2011-09-06 19:25:42 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
2ef5b7cca6 Start using 64-bit status flags - most of the code already handles them.
tdata -> tpool
remove commented out definitions from metadata.h
formatting clean-ups
2011-09-06 18:49:31 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
da23255cc9 Fix for bug 732142: Unsafe table load during mirror image split
There was a bad sequence:
*) Make changes to LV layout to split images (e.g. 4-way -> 2-way/2-way)
1) vg_write, suspend_lv(original_mirror), vg_commit
2) activate_lv(newly_split_lv)
3) resume_lv(original_mirror)

Step #2 is not allowed.  However, without it, the resume of the original
mirror will also resume its former sub-LVs - making it impossible to
activate the newly split LV due to the changes in layering, pointers, and
names that had already been made.  Additionally, the resume or the original
brings the sub-lv's online with names that differ from the metadata on disk -
also a no-no.  Thus, the split must be done in stages such that the active LVs
always reflect what is in the committed LVM metadata.

First, alter the original mirror by releasing the images.  The images are made
visible and independent as an intermediate stage.  (This way, we can have
consistency between LVM metadata and active LVs.)  The second stage collects
the recently split LVs, deactivates them, forms them into a mirror if necessary,
and then activates them.  It is a bit of a circuitous method, but it is the only
way to split a mirror from a mirror and obey these general rules:
1) Never [de]activate sub-lvs when the top-level LV is suspended
2) Avoid having active LVs that differ from the description in the LVM metadata

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2011-09-01 19:22:11 +00:00
Petr Rockai
e59e2f7c3c Move the core of the lib/config/config.c functionality into libdevmapper,
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.
2011-08-30 14:55:15 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
7411a44871 Remove and unneeded parameter from build_parallel_areas_from_lv() 2011-07-19 16:37:42 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
140615dafb remove unused var after recent patch 2011-06-24 23:39:09 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
9e0edb7ee5 Fix to preserve exclusive activation of mirror while up-converting.
When an LVM mirror is up-converted (an additional image added), it creates
a temporary mirror stack.  The lower-level mirror in the stack that is
created was not being activated exclusively - violating the exclusive nature
of the original mirror.  We now check for exclusive activation of a mirror
before converting it, and if found, we ensure that the temporary mirror
is also exclusively activated.
2011-06-23 14:00:58 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
9e277b9e2c Fix issue preventing cluster mirror creation.
Mirrors used to be created by first creating a linear device and then adding
the other images plus the log.  Now mirrors are created by creating all the
images in one go and then adding the log separately.  The new way ran into
the condition that cluster mirrors cannot change the log type (in the case
of creation, from core -> disk) while the mirror is not active.  (It isn't
active because it is in the process of being created.)  The reason this
condition is in place is because a remote node may have the mirror active, and
we don't want to alter the log underneath it.

What we really needed was a way of checking if the mirror was active remotely
but not locally, and in that case do not allow a change of the log.  I've added
this check, and cluster mirrors can now be created again.
2011-06-22 21:31:21 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f50a76379a Remove test for status flag
As the ACTIVATE_EXCL could be set only in clvmd code - there is no
use for this test in lv_add_mirrors() function only called from
tools context.

FIXME: Add cluster test case for this.
2011-06-17 14:27:34 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f3d8974dc9 Add couple FIXMEs around suspicious code 2011-06-17 14:24:18 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
df390f1799 Major pvmove fix to issue ioctls in the correct order when multiple LVs
are affected by the move.  (Currently it's possible for I/O to become
trapped between suspended devices amongst other problems.

The current fix was selected so as to minimise the testing surface.  I
hope eventually to replace it with a cleaner one that extends the
deptree code.

Some lvconvert scenarios still suffer from related problems.
2011-06-11 00:03:06 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
9cda028a96 clean up critical section patch 2011-04-28 20:29:59 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
96077265c4 Replace dm_snprintf with strncpy
My previous patch fixed incorrect error check for dm_snprintf.
However in this particular case - dm_snprintf has been used differently -
just like strncpy + setting last char with '\0' - so the code had to return
error - because the buffer was to short for whole string.

Patch replaces it with real strncpy.
Also test for alloca() failure is removed - as the program behaviour
is rather undefined in this case - it never returns NULL.
2011-04-12 14:13:17 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
c67d2b4dd4 Fix incorrect tests for dm_snprintf() failure
As the memory is preallocated based on arg size in these cases,
the error would be quite hard to trigger here anyway.
2011-04-09 19:05:23 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a1eba521e3 Fix some unmatching sign comparation gcc warnings
Simple replacement for unsigned type - usually in for() loops.
2011-04-08 14:40:18 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
fe93c99ad9 This patch adds the ability to extend 0 length layered LVs. This
allows us to allocate all images of a mirror (or RAID array) at one
time during create.

The current mirror implementation still requires a separate allocation
for the log, however.
2011-04-06 21:32:20 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
60c10a45ce s/MIRROR_NOTSYNCED/LV_NOTSYNCED/ - Flag will may refer to more than just mirrors 2011-03-29 12:51:57 +00:00
Petr Rockai
5ef2808bc7 In some cases, we could end up with a mirrored LV without a MIRRORED flag. In
other cases, the code could wind up removing wrong number of mirrors. In yet
other cases, we could remove the right number of mirrors, but fail to respect
the removal preferences (i.e. keep an image that was requested to be removed
while removing an image that was requested to be kept). Under some
circumstances, remove_mirror_images could also get stuck in an infinite loop.

This patch should fix all of the above undesirable behaviours.

Signed-off-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 12:28:02 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
84f48499a3 Add new free_pv_fid fn and use it throughout to free all attached fids.
Since format instances will use own memory pool, it's necessary to properly
deallocate it. For now, only fid is deallocated. The PV structure itself
still uses cmd mempool mostly, but anytime we'd like to add a mempool
in the struct physical_volume, we can just rename this fn to free_pv and
add the code (like we have free_vg fn for VGs).
2011-03-11 14:56:56 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
aec2115410 Const fixing
Fixing some const warnings - with API change in:

int vg_extend(struct volume_group *vg, int pv_count, const char *const *pv_names,

Change is needed - as lvm2api expects const behaviour here.
So vg_extend() is doing local strdup for unescaping.

skip_dev_dir return const char* from const char* vg_name.

Rest of the patch is cleanup of related warnings.

Also using dm_report_filed_string() API change to simplify
casting in _string_disp and _lvname_disp.
2011-02-18 14:47:28 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b1bcff7424 Critical section
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).
2011-02-18 14:16:11 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
cef065f63f Fix lvchange --test to exit cleanly. 2011-01-24 14:19:05 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
6a095ca99f s/log_verbose/log_error/ - Increase log level on error message. 2011-01-11 17:21:01 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
025e69a15a Add disk to mirrored log type conversion. 2011-01-11 17:05:08 +00:00
Petr Rockai
8191fe4f4a Refactor the percent (mirror sync, snapshot usage) handling code to use
fixed-point values instead of a combination of a float value and an enum.
2010-11-30 11:53:31 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
eb82bd0525 Extend cling allocation policy to recognise PV tags (cling_by_tags).
Add allocation/cling_tag_list to lvm.conf.
2010-11-09 12:34:40 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
2c33c8b80c Fix for bug 637936: killing both redundant logs causes deadlock
Problem:
When both legs of a mirrored log fail, neither the log nor the parent
mirror can proceed.  The repair code must be careful to replace the
log with an error target before operating on the parent - otherwise,
the parent can get stuck trying to suspend because it can't push through
any writes.  The steps to replace the log device with an error target
were incomplete and resulted in the replacement not happening at all!

The code originally had all the necessary logic to complete the
replacement task, but was pulled out in a effort to clean-up that
section of code, while fixing another bug:
<offending commit msg>
In addition, I added following three changes.

- Removed tmp_orphan_lvs handling procedure
  It seems that _delete_lv() can handle detached_log_lv properly
  without adding mirror legs in mirrored log to tmp_orphan_lvs.
  Therefore, I removed the procedure.

- Removed vg_write()/vg_commit()
  Metadata is saved by vg_write()/vg_commit() just after detached_log_lv
  is handled. Therefore, I removed vg_write()/vg_commit().
</offending commit msg>

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/lib/metadata/mirror.c?cvsroot=lvm2&f=h#rev1.130

I've reverted the "clean-up" changes associated with that fix, but not what
that commit was actually fixing.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
2010-10-14 20:03:12 +00:00
Petr Rockai
98351ffbd5 Make lvconvert respect --yes/--force in the inactive log conversion
prompt. Fixes BZs 642055, 621281. Patch by Taka.

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
2010-10-12 16:41:17 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
22149572e8 Use 'SINGLENODE' instead of 'dead' in clvmd singlenode messages.
Ignore snapshots when performing mirror recovery beneath an origin.
Pass LCK_ORIGIN_ONLY flag around cluster.
Add suspend_lv_origin and resume_lv_origin using LCK_ORIGIN_ONLY.
2010-08-17 19:25:05 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
2d6fcbf67d Allow internal suspend and resume of origin without its snapshots. 2010-08-17 16:25:32 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
d0191bf9f4 Fix for bug 612291: dm devices of split off mirror images are not removed
DM devices were not handled properly on nodes in a cluster that were not
where the splitmirrors command was issued.  This was happening because
suspend_lv/resume_lv were being used in a place where activate_lv should
have been used.

When the suspend/resume are issued on (effectively) new LVs, their
'resource' (UUID) is not located in the lv_hash.  Thus, both operations
turn into no-ops.  You can see this from the output of clvmd from one
of the remote nodes:
<snip>
do_suspend_lv, lock not already held
<snip>
do_resume_lv, lock not already held

'activate_lv' enjoins the other nodes in the cluster to process the lock
and activate the new LV.  clvmd output from remote node as follows:
do_lock_lv: resource 'zMseY7CBuO3Ty09vXlplPAHzD0Y0CovjrTdv0R1VcwggMwPdYhutHErRcwm5Nd2S', cmd = 0x19 LCK_LV_ACTIVATE (READ|LV|NONBLOCK), flags = 0x84 (DMEVENTD_MONITOR ), memlock = 1
sync_lock: 'zMseY7CBuO3Ty09vXlplPAHzD0Y0CovjrTdv0R1VcwggMwPdYhutHErRcwm5Nd2S' mode:1 flags=1
sync_lock: returning lkid 27b0001

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
2010-08-16 18:02:14 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
8d2d4f1fa0 Fix for bug 619221 - log device splitting regression
An incorrect fix on July 13, 2010 for an annoyance has caused a regression.
The offending check-in was part of the 2.02.71 release of LVM.  That
check-in caused any PVs specified on the command line to be ignored when
performing a mirror split.

This patch reverses the aforementioned check-in (solving the regressions)
and posits a new solution to the list reversal problem.  The original
problem was that we would always take the lowest mimage LVs from a mirror
when performing a split, but what we really want is to take the highest
mimage LVs.  This patch accomplishes that by working through the list in
reverse order - choosing the higher numbered mimages first.  (This also
reduces the amount of processing necessary.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <takahiro.yasui@hds.com>
2010-08-06 15:38:32 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
cbd41292a4 Taka's fix for handling failure of all mirrored log devices and
all but one mirror leg.

<patch header>
To handle a double failure of a mirrored log, Jon's two patches are
commited, however, lvconvert command can't still handle an error
when mirror leg and mirrored log got failure at the same time.

  [Patch]: Handle both devices of a mirrored log failing (bug 607347)
  posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2010-July/msg00009.html
  commit: https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2010-July/msg00027.html

  [Patch]: Handle both devices of a mirrored log failing (bug 607347) -
           additional fix
  posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2010-July/msg00093.html
  commit: https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2010-July/msg00101.html

In the second patch, the target type of mirrored log is replaced with
error target when remove_log is set to 1, but this procedure should be
also used in other cases such as the number of mirror leg is 1. This
patch relocates the procedure to the main path.

In addition, I added following three changes.

- Removed tmp_orphan_lvs handling procedure
  It seems that _delete_lv() can handle detached_log_lv properly
  without adding mirror legs in mirrored log to tmp_orphan_lvs.
  Therefore, I removed the procedure.

- Removed vg_write()/vg_commit()
  Metadata is saved by vg_write()/vg_commit() just after detached_log_lv
  is handled. Therefore, I removed vg_write()/vg_commit().

- With Jon's second patch, we think that we don't have to call
  remove_mirror_log() in _lv_update_mirrored_log() because will be
  handled remove_mirror_images() in _lvconvert_mirrors_repaire().
</patch header>

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <takahiro.yasui@hds.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Rockai <prockai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 21:07:40 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
efaaf3146d Disallow mirrored logs in cluster mirrors.
The cluster log daemon (cmirrord) is not multi-threaded and
can handle only one request at a time.  When a log is stacked
on top of a mirror (which itself contains a 'core' log), it
creates a situation that cannot be solved without threading.

When the top level mirror issues a "resume", the log daemon
attempts to read from the log device to retrieve the log
state.  However, the log is a mirror which, before issuing
the read, attempts to determine the 'sync' status of the
region of the mirror which is to be read.  This sync status
request cannot be completed by the daemon because it is
blocked on a read I/O to the very mirror requesting the
sync status.
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