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Alasdair G Kergon
baf95bbff7 cmdline: Add --ignoreskippedcluster.
Accept --ignoreskippedcluster with pvs, vgs, lvs, pvdisplay, vgdisplay,
lvdisplay, vgchange and lvchange to avoid the 'Skipping clustered
VG' errors when requesting information about a clustered VG
without using clustered locking and still exit with success.

The messages can still be seen with -v.
2013-10-01 21:20:10 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
a3a5f58c21 reporting: Add devtypes command.
Add internal devtypes reporting command to display built-in recognised
block device types.  (The output does not include any additional
types added by a configuration file.)

> lvm devtypes -o help
  Device Types Fields
  -------------------
    devtype_all            - All fields in this section.
    devtype_name           - Name of Device Type exactly as it appears in /proc/devices.
    devtype_max_partitions - Maximum number of partitions. (How many device minor numbers get reserved for each device.)
    devtype_description    - Description of Device Type.

> lvm devtypes
  DevType       MaxParts Description
  aoe                 16 ATA over Ethernet
  ataraid             16 ATA Raid
  bcache               1 bcache block device cache
  blkext               1 Extended device partitions
...
2013-09-18 01:09:15 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
5face2010d tools: Use backgroundfork_ARG for pvscan -b
Change pvscan -b to use a new backgroundfork_ARG instead of
background_ARG so as not to affect pvmove -b and lvconvert -b.
2013-09-06 01:43:24 +01:00
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
6a5838a69c pvscan: show -aay with --cache for help 2013-09-03 09:51:30 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
ccc29f17b6 cmdline: support ARG_GROUPABLE in merge_synonym 2013-07-19 20:37:43 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
90a09559ed commandline: add prefix aliases for raid options
Accept --raidwritemostly as well as --writemostly etc.
2013-07-19 19:24:54 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
aab53f46ee thin: add lvconvert pool metadata spare
Support poolmetadataspare when convering volumes into thin pool.
Same rules applied as with lvcreate.
2013-07-18 18:22:44 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3075784955 thin: add spare lvcreate support
Add --poolmetadataspare option and creates and handles
pool metadata spare lv when thin pool is created.
With default setting 'y' it tries to ensure, spare has
at least the size of created LV.
2013-07-18 18:22:44 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
ab789c1bcf tools: add --setactivationskip and --ignoreactivationskip to vgchange/lvchange
The lvchange has both -k/--setactivationskip and
-K/--ignoreactivationskip option available for use.

The vgchange has only -K/--ignoreactivationskip, but
not the -k/--setactivationskip as the ACTIVATION_SKIP
flag is an LV property, not a VG one and so we change it
only by using the lvchange...
2013-07-12 20:49:57 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
7dc8c84b18 activation: add support for skipping activation of selected LVs
Also add -k/--setactivationskip y/n and -K/--ignoreactivationskip
options to lvcreate.

The --setactivationskip y sets the flag in metadata for an LV to
skip the LV during activation. Also, the newly created LV is not
activated.

Thin snapsots have this flag set automatically if not specified
directly by the --setactivationskip y/n option.

The --ignoreactivationskip overrides the activation skip flag set
in metadata for an LV (just for the run of the command - the flag
is not changed in metadata!)

A few examples for the lvcreate with the new options:

  (non-thin snap LV => skip flag not set in MDA + LV activated)
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -l1 vg
    Logical volume "lvol0" created
  raw/~ $ lvs -o lv_name,attr vg/lvol0
    LV    Attr
    lvol0 -wi-a----

  (non-thin snap LV + -ky => skip flag set in MDA + LV not activated)
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -l1 -ky vg
    Logical volume "lvol1" created
  raw/~ $ lvs -o lv_name,attr vg/lvol1
    LV    Attr
    lvol1 -wi------

  (non-thin snap LV + -ky + -K => skip flag set in MDA + LV activated)
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -l1 -ky -K vg
    Logical volume "lvol2" created
  raw/~ $ lvs -o lv_name,attr vg/lvol2
    LV    Attr
    lvol2 -wi-a----

  (thin snap LV => skip flag set in MDA (default behaviour) + LV not activated)
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -L100M -T vg/pool -V 1T -n thin_lv
    Logical volume "thin_lv" created
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -s vg/thin_lv -n thin_snap
    Logical volume "thin_snap" created
  raw/~ $ lvs -o name,attr vg
    LV        Attr
    pool      twi-a-tz-
    thin_lv   Vwi-a-tz-
    thin_snap Vwi---tz-

  (thin snap LV + -K => skip flag set in MDA (default behaviour) + LV activated)
  raw/~ $ lvcreate -s vg/thin_lv -n thin_snap -K
    Logical volume "thin_snap" created
  raw/~ $ lvs -o name,attr vg/thin_lv
    LV      Attr
    thin_lv Vwi-a-tz-

  (thins snap LV + -kn => no skip flag in MDA (default behaviour overridden) + LV activated)
  [0] raw/~ # lvcreate -s vg/thin_lv -n thin_snap -kn
    Logical volume "thin_snap" created
  [0] raw/~ # lvs -o name,attr vg/thin_snap
    LV        Attr
    thin_snap Vwi-a-tz-
2013-07-12 20:39:07 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
953a438e93 dumpconfig: add --type profilable
The --type profilable shows all config settings that
are customizable by profiles:

  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig --type profilable
  allocation {
	  thin_pool_zero=1
	  thin_pool_discards="passdown"
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=64
  }
  activation {
	  thin_pool_autoextend_threshold=100
	  thin_pool_autoextend_percent=20
  }
2013-07-09 10:00:47 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
5ed7d0cf1d dumpconfig: add --mergedconfig option
Normally, the lvm dumpconfig processes only the configuration tree
that is at the top of the cascade. Considering the cascade is:

  CONFIG_STRING -> CONFIG_PROFILE -> CONFIG_MERGED_FILES/CONFIG_FILE

...then:

  (dumpconfig of lvm.conf only)
  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig allocation
  allocation {
	  maximise_cling=1
	  mirror_logs_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=64
  }

  (dumpconfig of selected profile configuration only)
  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig --profile test allocation
  allocation {
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=8
	  thin_pool_discards="passdown"
	  thin_pool_zero=1
  }

  (dumpconfig of given --config configuration only)
  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig --config 'allocation{thin_pool_chunk_size=16}' allocation
  allocation {
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=16
  }

The --mergedconfig option causes the configuration cascade to be
merged before processing it with dumpconfig:

  (dumpconfig of merged selected profile and lvm.conf)
  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig --profile test allocation --mergedconfig
  allocation {
	  maximise_cling=1
	  thin_pool_zero=1
	  thin_pool_discards="passdown"
	  mirror_logs_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=8
  }

  (dumpconfig merged given --config and selected profile and lvm.conf)
  raw/~ $ lvm dumpconfig --profile test --config 'allocation{thin_pool_chunk_size=16}' allocation --mergedconfig
  allocation {
	  maximise_cling=1
	  thin_pool_zero=1
	  thin_pool_discards="passdown"
	  mirror_logs_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs=0
	  thin_pool_chunk_size=16
  }

Hence with the --mergedconfig, we are able to see the
configuration that is actually used when processing any
LVM command while using any combination of --config/--profile
options together with lvm.conf file.
2013-07-08 16:05:56 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
0cd4794735 tools: add support for changing configuration profile for existing volumes (vgchange/lvchange)
The command to change the profile for existing VG/LV:
	"vgchange/lvchange --profile <profile_name>"

The command to detach any existing profile from VG/LV:
	"vgchange/lvchange --detachprofile"
2013-07-02 15:22:10 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
87aca628d6 thin: lvresize supports pool metadata resize
Add support for lvresize of thin pool metadata device.

lvresize --poolmetadatasize +20   vgname/thinpool_lv

or

lvresize -L +20 vgname/thinpool_lv_tmeta

Where the second one allows all the args for resize (striping...)
and the first option resizes accoding to the last metadata lv segment.
2013-06-11 14:05:20 +02:00
Jonathan Brassow
562c678ee2 DM RAID: Add ability to throttle sync operations for RAID LVs.
This patch adds the ability to set the minimum and maximum I/O rate for
sync operations in RAID LVs.  The options are available for 'lvcreate' and
'lvchange' and are as follows:
  --minrecoveryrate <Rate> [bBsSkKmMgG]
  --maxrecoveryrate <Rate> [bBsSkKmMgG]
The rate is specified in size/sec/device.  If a suffix is not given,
kiB/sec/device is assumed.  Setting the rate to 0 removes the preference.
2013-05-31 11:25:52 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
732859d21f refactor: rename embedding area -> bootloader area 2013-05-28 12:37:22 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
c6cf2ed7fd commands: accept --yes globally
Accept --yes on all commands, even ones that don't today have prompts,
so that test scripts that don't care about interactive prompts no
longer need to deal with them.

But continue to mention --yes only in the command prototypes that
actually use it.
2013-05-14 18:45:37 +01:00
Jonathan Brassow
2e0740f7ef RAID: Add writemostly/writebehind support for RAID1
'lvchange' is used to alter a RAID 1 logical volume's write-mostly and
write-behind characteristics.  The '--writemostly' parameter takes a
PV as an argument with an optional trailing character to specify whether
to set ('y'), unset ('n'), or toggle ('t') the value.  If no trailing
character is given, it will set the flag.
Synopsis:
        lvchange [--writemostly <PV>:{t|y|n}] [--writebehind <count>] vg/lv
Example:
        lvchange --writemostly /dev/sdb1:y --writebehind 512 vg/raid1_lv

The last character in the 'lv_attr' field is used to show whether a device
has the WriteMostly flag set.  It is signified with a 'w'.  If the device
has failed, the 'p'artial flag has priority.

Example ("nosync" raid1 with mismatch_cnt and writemostly):
[~]# lvs -a --segment vg
  LV                VG   Attr      #Str Type   SSize
  raid1             vg   Rwi---r-m    2 raid1  500.00m
  [raid1_rimage_0]  vg   Iwi---r--    1 linear 500.00m
  [raid1_rimage_1]  vg   Iwi---r-w    1 linear 500.00m
  [raid1_rmeta_0]   vg   ewi---r--    1 linear   4.00m
  [raid1_rmeta_1]   vg   ewi---r--    1 linear   4.00m

Example (raid1 with mismatch_cnt, writemostly - but failed drive):
[~]# lvs -a --segment vg
  LV                VG   Attr      #Str Type   SSize
  raid1             vg   rwi---r-p    2 raid1  500.00m
  [raid1_rimage_0]  vg   Iwi---r--    1 linear 500.00m
  [raid1_rimage_1]  vg   Iwi---r-p    1 linear 500.00m
  [raid1_rmeta_0]   vg   ewi---r--    1 linear   4.00m
  [raid1_rmeta_1]   vg   ewi---r-p    1 linear   4.00m

A new reportable field has been added for writebehind as well.  If
write-behind has not been set or the LV is not RAID1, the field will
be blank.
Example (writebehind is set):
[~]# lvs -a -o name,attr,writebehind vg
  LV            Attr      WBehind
  lv            rwi-a-r--     512
  [lv_rimage_0] iwi-aor-w
  [lv_rimage_1] iwi-aor--
  [lv_rmeta_0]  ewi-aor--
  [lv_rmeta_1]  ewi-aor--

Example (writebehind is not set):
[~]# lvs -a -o name,attr,writebehind vg
  LV            Attr      WBehind
  lv            rwi-a-r--
  [lv_rimage_0] iwi-aor-w
  [lv_rimage_1] iwi-aor--
  [lv_rmeta_0]  ewi-aor--
  [lv_rmeta_1]  ewi-aor--
2013-04-15 13:59:46 -05:00
Jonathan Brassow
ff64e3500f RAID: Add scrubbing support for RAID LVs
New options to 'lvchange' allow users to scrub their RAID LVs.
Synopsis:
	lvchange --syncaction {check|repair} vg/raid_lv

RAID scrubbing is the process of reading all the data and parity blocks in
an array and checking to see whether they are coherent.  'lvchange' can
now initaite the two scrubbing operations: "check" and "repair".  "check"
will go over the array and recored the number of discrepancies but not
repair them.  "repair" will correct the discrepancies as it finds them.

'lvchange --syncaction repair vg/raid_lv' is not to be confused with
'lvconvert --repair vg/raid_lv'.  The former initiates a background
synchronization operation on the array, while the latter is designed to
repair/replace failed devices in a mirror or RAID logical volume.

Additional reporting has been added for 'lvs' to support the new
operations.  Two new printable fields (which are not printed by
default) have been added: "syncaction" and "mismatches".  These
can be accessed using the '-o' option to 'lvs', like:
	lvs -o +syncaction,mismatches vg/lv
"syncaction" will print the current synchronization operation that the
RAID volume is performing.  It can be one of the following:
        - idle:   All sync operations complete (doing nothing)
        - resync: Initializing an array or recovering after a machine failure
        - recover: Replacing a device in the array
        - check: Looking for array inconsistencies
        - repair: Looking for and repairing inconsistencies
The "mismatches" field with print the number of descrepancies found during
a check or repair operation.

The 'Cpy%Sync' field already available to 'lvs' will print the progress
of any of the above syncactions, including check and repair.

Finally, the lv_attr field has changed to accomadate the scrubbing operations
as well.  The role of the 'p'artial character in the lv_attr report field
as expanded.  "Partial" is really an indicator for the health of a
logical volume and it makes sense to extend this include other health
indicators as well, specifically:
        'm'ismatches:  Indicates that there are discrepancies in a RAID
                       LV.  This character is shown after a scrubbing
                       operation has detected that portions of the RAID
                       are not coherent.
        'r'efresh   :  Indicates that a device in a RAID array has suffered
                       a failure and the kernel regards it as failed -
                       even though LVM can read the device label and
                       considers the device to be ok.  The LV should be
                       'r'efreshed to notify the kernel that the device is
                       now available, or the device should be 'r'eplaced
                       if it is suspected of failing.
2013-04-11 15:33:59 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
7d6991e900 dumpconfig: add --ignoreadvanced and --ignoreunsupported switch
lvm dumpconfig [--ignoreadvanced] [--ignoreunsupported]

--ignoreadvanced causes the advanced configuration options to be left
out on dumpconfig output

--ignoreunsupported causes the options that are not officially supported
to be lef out on dumpconfig output
2013-03-06 10:46:36 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
088d88cfe2 dumpconfig: add --withcomments and --withversions switch
lvm dumpconfig [--withcomments] [--withversions]

The --withcomments causes the comments to appear on output before each
config node (if they were defined in config_settings.h).

The --withversions causes a one line extra comment to appear on output
before each config node with the version information in which the
configuration setting first appeared.
2013-03-06 10:46:36 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
34350963d1 dumpconfig: add --type, --atversion and --validate arg
lvm dumpconfig [--type {current|default|missing|new}] [--atversion] [--validate]

This patch adds above-mentioned args to lvm dumpconfig and it maps them
to creation and writing out a configuration tree of a specific type
(see also previous commit):

  - current maps to CFG_TYPE_CURRENT
  - default maps to CFG_TYPE_DEFAULT
  - missing maps to CFG_TYPE_MISSING
  - new maps to CFG_TYPE_NEW

If --type is not defined, dumpconfig defaults to "--type current"
which is the original behaviour of dumpconfig before all these changes.

The --validate option just validates current configuration tree
(lvm.conf/--config) and it writes a simple status message:

  "LVM configuration valid" or "LVM configuration invalid"
2013-03-06 10:46:36 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
86f65a3f2b tools: add embeddingareasize arg to pvcreate and vgconvert
To create an Embedding Area during PV creation (pvcreate or as part of
the vgconvert operation), we need to define the Embedding Area size.
The Embedding Area start will be calculated automatically by the tools.

This patch adds --embeddingareasize argument to pvcreate and vgconvert.
2013-02-26 14:46:41 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b73de73151 thin: lvconvert support for external origin
Add basic support for converting LV into an external origin volume.

Syntax:

lvconvert --thinpool vg/pool  --originname renamed_origin -T origin

It will convert volume  'origin' into a thin volume, which will
use 'renamed_origin' as an external read-only origin.
All read/write into origin will go via 'pool'.

renamed_origin volume is read-only volume, that could be activated
only in read-only mode, and cannot be modified.
2013-02-23 10:38:20 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
09b7ceea95 thin: allow restore with --force
Allow restoring metadata with thin pool volumes.
No validation is done for this case within vgcfgrestore tool -
thus incorrect metadata may lead to destruction of pool content.
2012-11-27 14:08:24 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b21d3e3592 thin: lvconvert update
Use common function from toollib and support allocation
of metadata LV with give thin pool data LV.
2012-11-19 14:38:17 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a27650cc98 thin: lvconvert
Update code for lvconvert.
Change the lvconvert user interface a bit - now we require 2 specifiers
--thinpool   takes LV name for data device (and makes the name)
--poolmetadata  takes LV name for metadata device.

Fix type in thin help text -z -> -Z.

Supported is also new flag --discards for thinpools.
2012-10-03 15:13:33 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
54c24193f5 thin: lvcreate --discards 2012-08-09 16:25:52 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
701b4a8363 thin: use discards as plural rather than singular
Global change from --discard to --discards, as that feels more natural.
2012-08-07 21:24:41 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
1ca813083f thin: tidy commands.h arg lists
args are listed alphabetically.
lvconvert -T is covered in the second section not the first.
It could be tidied further or split out.
2012-08-07 20:10:06 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
48367c5be9 thin: add lvchange for discard and zero change
Update lvchange to allow change of 'zero' flag for thinpool.
Add support for changing discard handling.

N.B.  from/to  ignore could be only changed for inactive pool.
2012-07-18 14:38:34 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
ebbf7d8e68 thin: add discard support for thin pool
Add arg support for discard.
Add discard ignore, nopassdown, passdown (=default) support.
Flags could be set per pool.

lvcreate [--discard {ignore|no_passdown|passdown}]  vg/thinlv
2012-07-18 14:36:57 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
a2f4ccd839 lvcreate: add --activate ay (autoactivate)
One can use "lvcreate --aay" to have the newly created volume
activated or not activated based on the activation/auto_activation_volume_list
this way.

Note: -Z/--zero is not compatible with -aay, zeroing is not used in this case!
When using lvcreate -aay, a default warning message is also issued that zeroing
is not done.
2012-06-28 09:44:07 -04:00
Peter Rajnoha
c9b9077b44 lvchange: add --activate ay (autoactivate)
The same as for vgchange...
2012-06-28 09:44:07 -04:00
Peter Rajnoha
d2df8dddc8 pvscan: add --activate ay option (autoactivate)
Define auto_activation_handler that activates VGs/LVs automatically
based on the activation/auto_activation_volume_list (activating all
volumes by default if the list is not defined).

The autoactivation is done within the pvscan call in 69-dm-lvmetad.rules
that watches for udev events (device appearance/removal).

For now, this works for non-clustered and complete VGs only.
2012-06-28 09:44:03 -04:00
Peter Rajnoha
215a314f19 vgchange: add --activate ay option (autoactivate)
Normally, the 'vgchange -ay' activates all volume groups (that pass
the activation/volume_list filter if set).

This call can appear in two scenarios:
 - system boot (so activation within a script in general)
 - manual call on command line (so activaton on user's direct request)

For the former one, we would like to select which VGs should be actually
activated. One can define the list of VGs directly to do that. But that
would require the same list to be provided in all the scripts.

The 'vgchange -aay' will check for the activation/auto_activation_volume_list
in adition and it will activate only those VGs/LVs that pass this
filter (assuming all to be activated if the list is not defined - the
same logic we already have for activation/volume_list).

Init/boot scripts should use this form of activation primarily
(which, anyway, becomes only a fallback now with autoactivation done
on PV appearance in tandem with lvmetad in place).
2012-06-28 09:42:48 -04:00
Peter Rajnoha
2729720fd3 args: add --activate synonym for --available arg
We're refererring to 'activation' all over the code and we're talking
about 'LVs being activated' all the time so let's use 'activation/activate'
everywhere for clarity and consistency (still providing the old
'available' keyword as a synonym for backward compatibility with
existing environments).
2012-06-28 09:42:44 -04:00
Zdenek Kabelac
0a9f894ff0 Initial support for lvconvert for thin pool volumes.
Support has many limitations and lots of FIXMEs inside,
however it makes initial task when user creates a separate LV for
thin pool data and thin metadata already usable, so let's enable
it for testing.

Easiest API:

lvconvert --chunksize XX --thinpool data_lv  metadata_lv

More functionality extensions will follow up.

TODO: Code needs some rework since a lot of same code is getting copied.
2012-05-09 12:17:06 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
3be9089cd3 Add 'vgscan --cache' functionality for consistency with 'pvscan --cache'.
Calling vgscan alone should reuse information from the lvmetad (if running).
The --cache option should initiate direct device scan and update lvmetad
appropriately (if running).

This is mainly for vgscan to behave consistently compared to pvscan.
2012-03-27 11:04:46 +00:00
Alasdair Kergon
fa25bdc3ef close ] 2012-03-06 03:11:13 +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
dc9ef7a028 Check return values after calling new lvmetad fns
(Haven't checked error path handling though)
2012-02-28 18:08:08 +00:00
Petr Rockai
dae0822698 The lvmetad client-side integration. Only active when use_lvmetad = 1 is set in
lvm.conf *and* lvmetad is running.
2012-02-23 13:11:07 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
0c506d9a40 Support the ability to replace specific devices in a RAID array.
RAID is not like traditional LVM mirroring.  LVM mirroring required failed
devices to be removed or the logical volume would simply hang.  RAID arrays can
keep on running with failed devices.  In fact, for RAID types other than RAID1,
removing a device would mean substituting an error target or converting to a
lower level RAID (e.g. RAID6 -> RAID5, or RAID4/5 to RAID0).  Therefore, rather
than removing a failed device unconditionally and potentially allocating a
replacement, RAID allows the user to "replace" a device with a new one.  This
approach is a 1-step solution vs the current 2-step solution.

example> lvconvert --replace <dev_to_remove> vg/lv [possible_replacement_PVs]

'--replace' can be specified more than once.

example> lvconvert --replace /dev/sdb1 --replace /dev/sdc1 vg/lv
2011-11-30 02:02:10 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b8cac455bd Thin supports poolmetadatasize setting
Add option to set pool metadatasize.
For passing size parameter reuse region_size.
2011-11-04 22:43:10 +00:00
Jonathan Earl Brassow
dc0582ce0a Fix bad lvconvert help output.
The '--merge' option to lvconvert works on snapshots and RAID1.  The man
pages correctly reflect this, but the CLI help output still used the term,
'SnapshotLogicalVolume'.
2011-10-18 16:27:45 +00:00