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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Teigland
9273b1a964 man: expanded explanation of pvscan
Related to it's role with lvmetad and auto-activation.
2015-05-01 15:23:32 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
8dbe767340 pvscan: notify lvmetad about device that is gone and pvscan is run with device path instead of major:minor pair
If pvscan is run with device path instead of major:minor pair and this
device still exists in the system and the device is not visible anymore
(due to a filter that is applied), notify lvmetad properly about this.

This makes it more consistent with respect to existing pvscan with
major:minor which already notifies lvmetad about device that is gone
due to filters.

However, if the device is not in the system anymore, we're not able
to translate the original device path into major:minor pair which
lvmetad needs for its action (lvmetad_pv_gone fn). So in this case,
we still need to use major:minor pair only, not device path. But at
least make "pvscan --cache DevicePath" as near as possible to "pvscan
--cahce <major>:<minor>" functionality.

Also add a note to pvscan man page about this difference when using
pvscan --cache with DevicePath and major:minor pair.
2015-01-12 13:59:51 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
0896987633 man: properly escape -
Dash should be using '\' to be typographically correct.
2014-06-11 11:10:55 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
e78092fa3a man: more man page updates for --commandprofile and --metadataprofile split 2014-05-21 14:53:56 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
0a13815e68 pvscan: use format feature flags in lvmetad code
Introduce FMT_OBSOLETE to identify pool metadata and use it and FMT_MDAS
instead of hard-coded format names.
Explain device accesses on pvscan --cache man page.
2014-01-08 02:13:13 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
0a48137d39 pvscan: use major:minor as short form of --major and --minor arg for pvscan --cache
Before, pvscan recognized either:
  pvscan --cache --major <major> --minor <minor>
or
  pvscan --cache <DevicePath>

When the device is gone and we need to notify lvmetad about device
removal, only --major/--minor works as we can't translate DevicePath
into major/minor pair anymore. The device does not exist in the system
and we don't keep DevicePath index in lvmetad cache to make the
translation internally into original major/minor pair. It would be
useless to keep this index just for this one exact case.

There's nothing bad about using "--major <major> --minor <minor>",
but it makes our life a bit harder when trying to make an
interconnection with systemd units, mainly with instantiated services
where only one and only one arg can be passed (which is encoded in the
service name).

This patch tries to make this easier by adding support for recognizing
the "<major>:<minor>" as a shortcut for the longer form
"--major <major> --minor <minor>". The rule here is simple: if the argument
starts with "/", it's a DevicePath, otherwise it's a <major>:<minor> pair.
2013-10-22 13:52:18 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
10bc19ec10 doc: add a note about device filtering while lvmetad is used 2013-09-16 16:29:33 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
008c33a21b tools: add -b/--background for pvscan --cache -aay
Udev daemon has recently introduced a limit on the number of udev
processes (there was no limit before). This causes a problem
when calling pvscan --cache -aay in lvmetad udev rules which
is supposed to activate the volumes. This activation is itself
synced with udev and so it waits for the activation to complete
before the pvscan finishes. The event processing can't continue
until this pvscan call is finished.

But if we're at the limit with the udev process count, we can't
instatiate any more udev processes, all such events are queued
and so we can't process the lvm activation event for which the
pvscan is waiting.

Then we're in a deadlock since the udev process with the
pvscan --cache -aay call waits for the lvm activation udev
processing to complete, but that will never happen as there's
this limit hit with the number of udev processes.

The process with pvscan --cache -aay actually times out eventually
(3min or 30sec, depends on the version of udev).

This patch makes it possible to run the pvscan --cache -aay
in the background so the udev processing can continue and hence
we can avoid the deadlock mentioned above.
2013-09-03 16:49:21 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
dba53681a5 man: refine lvm.conf and man page documentation for autoactivation feature 2013-06-14 10:02:56 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
a54285a715 man: --activate ay and auto_activation_volume_list 2012-06-29 12:40:26 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
c63b155d16 Update man pages
Use one style for man pages.
2012-04-11 12:42:10 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
b343d75a5a Switch pvscan --cache major:minor to --major --minor. 2012-03-06 02:30:49 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
35216ca66c Scan all devices for lvmetad if 'pvscan --cache' used without device list. 2012-03-03 18:32:53 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
d742cdf327 Change pvscan --lvmetad to pvscan --cache. 2012-03-02 18:09:46 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
d06f64dd29 Allow multiple device names with pvscan --lvmetad.
Hold global lock in pvscan --lvmetad.  (This might need refinement.)
Add PV name to "PV gone" messages.
Adjust some log message severities.  (More changes needed.)
2012-03-02 16:58:41 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
d6f989d1ee spacing 2012-02-28 18:17:37 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
e13efd652c I don't think -u is meant to be used with lvmetad 2012-02-28 18:16:23 +00:00
Petr Rockai
f0582ee661 Add tentative documentation of pvscan --lvmetad to the pvscan manpage. 2012-02-26 08:45:07 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a1dbe74c4c Place back some common options
Until man pages are generated keep some common options with all commands.
2011-02-04 21:19:03 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
667d14e377 Updating man pages 2011-01-28 16:03:38 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
5951ef331a Generate man pages from templates and include version. (romster) 2008-10-08 12:50:13 +00:00