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A command def can include a specific constant option value,
but the value was not being checked for optional opts.
e.g. this is an incorrect command and does not match any
command defs:
lvconvert --type cache --cachepool vg/lv
However, it was mistakely being matched to this cmd def,
where the required options match, but the optional options
do not:
lonvert --cachepool LV_linear_striped_raid_cachepool
OO: --type cache-pool, ...
The optional options were mistakely considered matching
because 'cache' and 'cache-pool' were not being compared.
lvchange/lvconvert operations that do not require the LV
to already be active need to acquire a transient LV lock
before changing/converting the LV to ensure the LV is not
active on another host. If the LV is already active,
a persistent LV lock already exists on the host and the
transient LV lock request is a no-op.
Some lvmlockd locks in lvchange were lost in the cmd def
changes. The lvmlockd locks in lvconvert seem to have
been missed from the start.
The actual value specified by the --poll y|n option was not
being used. The way the --poll value is used is hidden
through an indirection where the value is stored in a
global variable at the start of the command, and then the
value is read from there later. Setting the global
variable early in the command had been lost with the
cmd def changes.
Fill in some gaps where old versions of lvm allowed
--poll and --monitor in combination with other operations,
but those combinations had been lost since the cmd def work.
(The new cmd def code also added some combinations that
had been missed by the old code.)
Changes:
lvchange --activate: add poll and monitor options, and
add calls to them in implementation.
lvchange --refresh: add monitor option (poll already there),
and call to monitor in implementation.
lvchange <metadata ops>: add poll and monitor options, and
add calls to them in implementation.
vgchange <metadata ops>: add poll option (call to poll
already in implementation).
vgchange --refresh: remove monitor option (not used by code)
lvchange --persistent y: add poll and monitor options, and
add calls to them, and to activate
in the implementation. (Making it
match the main lvchange metadata
command.)
Summary of current usage:
lvchange --activate: monitor, poll
vgchange --activate: monitor, poll
lvchange --refresh: monitor, poll
vgchange --refresh: poll
lvchange --monitor: ok
lvchange --poll: ok
lvchange --monitor --poll: ok
vgchange --monitor: ok
vgchange --poll: ok
vgchange --monitor --poll: ok
lvchange <metadata ops>: monitor, poll
vgchange <metadata ops>: poll
Enhance commit 25b5915c9b
to process options requiring immediate metadata commits
and reloads after those we can group together doing just
one commit and an optional reload for the whole group.
Backup metadata after processing options successfully.
Related: rhbz1437611
Don't abbreviate the --help output quite as much
when there are many command defs. Print all the
options in the cmd defs that are shown. --longhelp
output is unchanged and includes everything.
These days --partial is only used with activation in
lvchange/vgchange. It probably had another meaning
at some point in history which is no longer used,
so ignore it in those cases.
When included in the OO list, the option is advertised in
help/man output, implying it is meaningful to the command,
when in fact the command never uses it.
The IO list means the option won't cause an error if it's
used, but is not displayed as an valid option for the command.
If the option is not included in either OO or IO lists,
using the option would cause a command error, which would cause
problems for anyone is using the option for historical reasons.
_lvchange_properties_single() processes multiple command
line arguments in a loop causing metadata updates and/or
backups per argument.
Optimize to only perform one update and/or backup
(but necessary interim ones; e.g. for --resync)
per command run.
Related: rhbz1437611
Fix a regression introduced by new command line processing
(see starting commit 1e2420bca8)
causing activation to be rejected in combination with setting
persistent minor device numbers.
Resolves: rhbz1437611
The fallback branch in _stats_update_file() is redundant (since the
branch taken when the daemon starts successfully must jump to the
'out' label anyway): remove it and re-order the conditions to
improve readability.
Removing some unused new lines and changing some incorrect "can't
release until this is fixed" comments. Rename license.txt to make
it clear its merely an included file, not itself a licence.
Commits a29bb6a14b
... 5c199d99f4
narrowed down on addressing the escaping of hyphens
in the dynamic creation of manuals whilst avoiding
them in creating help texts. This lead to a sequence
of slipping through hyphens adrressed by additional
patches in aforementioned commit series.
On the other hand, postprocessing dynamically man-generator
created and statically provided manuals catches all hyphens
in need of escaping.
Changes:
- revert the above commits whilst keeping man-generator
streamlining and the detection of any '\' when generating
help texts in order to avoid escapes to slip in
- Dynamically escape hyphens in manaual pages using sed(1)
in the respective Makefile targets
- remove any manually added escaping on hyphens from any
static manual sources or headers
raid1 doesn't allow to set all images to writemostly because at
least one image is required to receive any written data immediately.
The dm-raid target will detect such invalid request and
fail it iwith a kernel error message.
Reject such request in uspace displaying a respective error message.
The recent command definitions commit took the command
name from argv[0] without applying basename to the value,
so a pathname, e.g. /usr/sbin, would cause lvm to not
recognize the command name.
Fixes command defs related to creating a new thin pool and
then a new thin lv in the new pool.
1. lvcreate --size --virtualsize --thinpool
Needs a cmd def, it was missing.
The def is unique by the three required
options: size, virtualsize and thinpool.
2. lvcreate --size --virtualsize --thinpool VG
Needs a cmd def, it was missing.
The def is unique by the three required
options: size, virtualsize and thinpool,
and one required positional arg: VG.
3. lvcreate --thin --virtualsize --size LV_new|VG
This existing def should not accept an optional
--type thin, which if used makes it indistinct
from another def.
4. lvcreate --size --virtualsize VG
This existing def should not accept an optional
--type thin or --thin, which if used makes it
indistinct from other defs (e.g. 3)
This reverts commit 642d682d8d.
Using the thinpool option with this cmd def makes it
indistinct from other cmd defs where thinpool is a
required option.
lvcreate --thinpool POOL1 -L 100M --virtualsize 100M snapper_thinp
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1434027
(The general rule is that a command is accepted if it is unambiguous.
The combination -L -V --thinpool uniquely identifies the operation.)
Repairing missing devices does not work reliably
with lvmetad, so disable lvmetad before repair.
A standard lvmetad refresh (pvscan --cache) will
enable lvmetad again.
When a given command:
- matches command definition A based on required options,
but uses optional options that are not accepted by A.
- matches command definition B based on required options,
(but fewer required items than A), and uses no
unaccepted optional options.
then B is the correct choice. Command A would fail because
of the unaccepted optional options. The logic was mistakenly
letting A win because it had a greater number of required option
matches, without accounting for the optional option mismatches.
Systematically outline every combination of:
--type striped, --type mirror, --type raid, --mirrors, --stripes
and make sure each is assigned to one specific cmd def.
This revealed that a new command def is needed for
lvcreate that uses both --mirrors and --stripes
but no --type option.
The use of LVCREATE_RAID shortcut for an option set
resulted in mirrors/stripes being included in optional
opts set when they were already in the required list.
As was recently done with relative signes for sizes/extents,
limit the signs used with the mirrors option, e.g.
lvcreate --mirrors now does not accept or advertise an
optional minus sign with the value. lvconvert --mirrors
accepts +|-.
The LVCONVERT_RAID shortcut for including options ended
up including mirrors/stripes as optional opts in defs where
they were already required, or in defs where they would
not be used. Remove the option set and specify in each
case only the options wanted.
OO_LVCREATE_CACHE accepts --cachemetadataformat.
Support new option --cachemetadataformat auto|1|2 for caching.
Word 'auto' can be also be given as '0'.
As now we can properly recognize all paramerters for pool creation,
we may drop PASS_ARG_ defines and rely on '_UNSELECTED' or 0 entries
as being those without user given args.
When setting are not given on command line - 'update' function
fill them from profiles or configuration. For this 'profile' arg
was needed to be passed around and since 'VG' itself is not needed,
it's been all replaced with 'cmd, profile, extents_size' args.
Reuse same code for getting/setting cache parameters with lvcreate.
So there is single one place how to get vars from profiles and configs.
Variables declarations are moved to start of function and
there is no need to initialize them as they are always
defined by functions get_cache_params() and get_pool_params().
Fix missing reset of '*settings' pointer when no args were given.
Handle cache_chunk settings like all other settings, so it is properly
updated only with non-zero settings and the existing cache-pool
chunk_size is not being reconfigured.
Split-off patch that just replaces returns with 'goto bad'
so there is single place to release policy_settings.
In the next patch we will start to use some shared
function call between lvconvert and lvcreate
(effectively restoring previous logic which has got lost).
To more easily recognize unselected state from select '0' state
add new 'THIN_ZERO_UNSELECTED' enum.
Same applies to THIN_DISCARDS_UNSELECTED.
For those we no longer need to use PASS_ARG_ZERO or PASS_ARG_DISCARDS.
Older compilers cannot tell that the 'mode' variable is only
used in branches in which it is assigned:
dmsetup.c:5651: warning: "mode" may be used uninitialized in this function
dmsetup.c:5023: warning: "mode" may be used uninitialized in this function
Avoid this by always assigning the variable a value.
Launch an instance of the filemap monitoring daemon when creating,
or updating, a file mapped group, unless the --nomonitor switch is
given.
Unless --foreground is given the daemon will detach from the
terminal and run in the background until it is signaled or the
daemon termination conditions are met.
The --follow={inode|path} switch is added to control the daemon
behaviour when files are moved, unlinked, or renamed while they
are being monitored.
The daemon runs with the same verbosity as the dmstats command
that starts it.
Splitting off an image LV of a 2-legged
raid1 LV causes loss of resilience.
Ask user to avoid uninformed loss of all resilience.
Don't ask for N > 2 legged raid1 LVs.
Adjust tests.
Splitting off an image LV of a 2-legged raid1 LV tracking changes
causes loosing partial resilience for any newly written data set.
Full resilience will be provided again after the split off image LV
got merged back in and the new data set got fully synchronized.
Reason being that the data is only stored on the remaining single
writable image during the split.
Ask user to avoid uninformed loss of such partial resilience.
Don't ask for N > 2 legged raid1 LVs.
Add new values for different sign variations, resulting in:
size_VAL no sign accepted
ssize_VAL accepts + or -
psize_VAL accepts +
nsize_VAL accpets -
extents_VAL no sign accepted
sextents_VAL accepts + or -
pextents_VAL accepts +
nextents_VAL accepts -
Depending on the command being run, change the option
values for --size, --extents, --poolmetadatasize to
use the appropriate value from above.
lvcreate uses no sign (but accepts + and ignores it).
lvresize accepts +|- for a relative change.
lvextend accepts + for a relative change.
lvreduce accepts - for a relative change.
Like opt and val arrays in previous commit, combine duplicate
arrays for lv types and props in command.c and lvmcmdline.c.
Also move the command_names array to be defined in command.c
so it's consistent with the others.
command.c and lvmcmdline.c each had a full array defining
all options and values. This duplication was not removed
when the command.c code was merged into the run time.
Part of the UNIT description was still living in the
--size description. Move it to the Size[UNIT] description
since it is used by other options, not just --size.
In lvcreate/lvconvert, --poolmetdatasize can only be an
absolute value, but in lvresize/lvextend, --poolmetadatasize
can be given a + relative value.
The val types only currently support relative values that
go in both directions +|-. Further work is needed to add
val types that can be relative in only one direction, and
switching various option values to one those depending on
the command name. Then poolmetdatasize will not appear
with a +|- option in lvcreate/lvconvert, and will
appear with only the + option in lvresize/lvextend.
Clean up and correct the details around --extents and --size.
lvcreate/lvresize/lvreduce/lvextend all now display the
extents option in usages.
The Size and Number value variables for --size and --extents
are now displayed without the [+|-] prefix for lvcreate.
A special case is needed to display
--extents for lvcreate since the cmd defs
treat --extents as an automatic alternative
to --size (to avoid duplicating every cmd def).
When a cmd def includes multiple sets of options (OO_FOO),
allow multiple OO_FOO sets to contain the same option and
avoid repeating it in the cmd def.
There was confusion in the code about whether or not the
--size option accepted a sign. Make it consistent and clear
that it does.
This exposes a new problem in that an option can only
accept one value type, e.g. --size can only accept a
signed number, it cannot accept a positive or negative
number for some commands and reject negative numbers for
others.
In practice, lvcreate accepts only positive --size
values and lvresize accepts positive or negative --size
values. There is currently no way to encode this
difference. Until that is fixed, the man page output
is hacked to avoid printing the [+|-] prefix for sizes
in lvcreate.
Settings specified in other command line args take precedence over
profiles and --config, which takes precedence over settings in actual
config files.
Since commit 1e2420bca8 ('commands: new
method for defining commands') commands like this:
lvchange --config 'global/test=1' -ay vg
have been printing the 'TEST MODE' message, but nevertheless making
real changes.
Add/remove the SECONDARY_SYNTAX flag to cmd defs.
cmd defs with this flag will be listed under the
ADVANCED USAGE man page section, so that the main
USAGE section contains the most common commands
without distraction.
- When multiple cmd defs do the same thing, one variant
can be displayed in the first list.
- Very advanced, unusual or uncommon commands should be
in the second list.
- Combine the equivalent lvconvert --type raid defs.
(Two cmd defs must be different without relying
on LV type, which are not known at the time the
cmd def is matched.)
- Remove unused optional options from lvconvert --stripes,
and lvconvert --stripesize.
- Use Number for --stripes_long val type.
- Combine the cmd def for raid reshape cleanup into the
existing start_poll cmd def (they were duplicate defs).
Calls into the raid code from a poll opertion will be
added.
The options list was sorted as:
- options with both long and short forms, alphabetically
- options with only long form, alphabetically
This was done only for the visual effect. Change to
sort alphabetically by long opt, without regard to
short forms.
Fixes commit 286d39ee3c, which was correct except
for a reversed strstr. Now uses strchr, and modifies
a copy of the name so the original argv is preserved.
When requesting a regionsize change during conversions, check
for constraints or the command may fail in the kernel n case
the region size is too smalle or too large thus leaving any
new SubLVs behind.
Related: rhbz834579
Related: rhbz1191935
Related: rhbz1191978
In order to support striped raid5/6/10 LV reshaping (change
of LV type, stripesize or number of legs), this patch
introduces the changes to call the reshaping infratructure
from lv_raid_convert().
Changes:
- add reshaping calls from lv_raid_convert()
- add command definitons for reshaping to tools/command-lines.in
- fix raid_rimage_extents()
- add 2 new test scripts lvconvert-raid-reshape-linear_to_striped.sh
and lvconvert-raid-reshape-striped_to_linear.sh to test
the linear <-> striped multi-step conversions
- add lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh reshaping tests
- enhance lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh with new raid10 tests
Related: rhbz834579
Related: rhbz1191935
Related: rhbz1191978
In order to support striped raid5/6/10 LV reshaping (change
of LV type, stripesize or number of legs), this patch
introduces infrastructure prerequisites to be used
by raid_manip.c extensions in followup patches.
This base is needed for allocation of out-of-place
reshape space required by the MD raid personalities to
avoid writing over data in-place when reading off the
current RAID layout or number of legs and writing out
the new layout or to a different number of legs
(i.e. restripe)
Changes:
- add members reshape_len to 'struct lv_segment' to store
out-of-place reshape length per component rimage
- add member data_copies to struct lv_segment
to support more than 2 raid10 data copies
- make alloc_lv_segment() aware of both reshape_len and data_copies
- adjust all alloc_lv_segment() callers to the new API
- add functions to retrieve the current data offset (needed for
out-of-place reshaping space allocation) and the devices count
from the kernel
- make libdm deptree code aware of reshape_len
- add LV flags for disk add/remove reshaping
- support import/export of the new 'struct lv_segment' members
- enhance lv_extend/_lv_reduce to cope with reshape_len
- add seg_is_*/segtype_is_* macros related to reshaping
- add target version check for reshaping
- grow rebuilds/writemostly bitmaps to 246 bit to support kernel maximal
- enhance libdm deptree code to support data_offset (out-of-place reshaping)
and delta_disk (legs add/remove reshaping) target arguments
Related: rhbz834579
Related: rhbz1191935
Related: rhbz1191978
(Change to recent commit 3f4ecaf8c2.)
Use --foo Number[k|UNIT] to indicate that
the default units of the number is k, but other
units listed below are also accepted.
Previously, underlined/italic Unit was used,
like other of variables, but this UNIT is more
like a shortcut than an actual variable.
The MD kernel raid1 personality does no use any writemostly leg as the primary.
In case a previous linear LV holding data gets upconverted to
raid1 it becomes the primary leg of the new raid1 LV and a full
resynchronization is started to update the new legs.
No writemostly and/or writebehind setting may be allowed during
this initial, full synchronization period of this new raid1 LV
(using the lvchange(8) command), because that would change the
primary (i.e the previous linear LV) thus causing data loss.
lvchange has a bug not preventing this scenario.
Fix rejects setting writemostly and/or writebehind on resychronizing raid1 LVs.
Once we have status in the lvm2 metadata about the linear -> raid upconversion,
we may relax this constraint for other types of resynchronization
(e.g. for user requested "lvchange --resync ").
New lvchange-raid1-writemostly.sh test is added to the test suite.
Resolves: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855895
We use --foo Number[k|Units] to indicate that
the default units of the number is k, but other
units listed below are also accepted.
Capitalize and underline Units so it is consistent
with other variables, and reference it at the end.
Technically, the k should be bold, but this
tends to make the text visually hard to read
because of the excessive highlights scattered
everywhere. So it's left normal text for now
(it's unlikely to confuse anyone.)
Print ... after a repeatable option in the OPTIONS section.
An alternative would be to just mention in the text description
that the option is repeatable.
There are two kinds of common options:
1. options common to all variants of a given command name
2. options common to all lvm commands
Previously, both kinds of common options were listed together
under "Common options". Now the first are printed under
"Common options for command" (when needed), and the second
are printed under "Common options for lvm" (always).
Remove the "usage notes" which should just
live in the man pages.
When there are 3 or more variants of a command,
print all the options produces a lot of output,
so require --longhelp to print all the options
in these cases.
The --type option has previously been accepted for
lvresize/lvextend. Using it did not affect the operation
of the command. The value was simply verified as matching
the current seg type of the LV.
Commit f45b689406 caused regression
of lvresize -m and --type parameter
After fix this sequence may work when we also fix syntax description:
lvcreate -l1 -m1 -n lv1 vg
lvextend --type mirror -m1 -l+1 vg/lv1
For this syntax:
lvconvert --thinpool LV1 --poolmetadata LV2
lvconvert --cachepool LV1 --poolmetadata LV2
Restore the metadata swapping behavior in addition to
the pool creation behavior. When LV1 is already a pool,
the metadata LV will be swapped with LV2.
When LV1 is not a pool, it will be converted to a
pool using the specified LV for metadata.
This syntax is no longer advertised because of the
ambiguous behavior. The primary syntaxes for pool
creation and metadata swapping will be the advertised
methods.
As we now user binary search - it's nondeterministict
which of the same 'args' will be give - so duplicates
need 'extra' care.
So provide same hack for output for --uuidstr_ARG as
for input.
Solves 'pvscan -u'.
Since there is a lot of options and lot of searches,
use binary search to keep strcmp at minimum.
The interesting part is - alphabetically sorted array contains
duplicates and some of them are not the 'right anwer', so
after we find matching string but not matching long_ARG,
we may need to check if the surrouding strings are the right matching
one.
The single loops is used also for strictly define --foo_long
(i.e. --stripes) and just differs at final part.
TODO1: replace strstr call with some flag (just like short_opt).
TODO2: drop '--' from being stored and tests by strcmp.
When parsing command defs, track and report all
errors that are found. Add an error return case
from define_commands so the standard error exit
path is used.
When using liblvm2cmd, a process can do multiple
init/exit calls, i.e.
lvm2_init(); lvm2_run(); lvm2_exit();
lvm2_init(); lvm2_run(); lvm2_exit();
...
define_commands() needs to set up the global commands[]
definitions only the first time.
The old ad hoc arg parsing when combining a split snapshot
allowed the first lv to have a vgname, but not the second.
Since lvconvert now uses the standard arg parsing in
process_each_lv(), the old one-off behavior requires a
work around.
This reverts commit 717363bb94.
These alternate forms for swapping metadata cannot be
distinguished from the command for creating a pool.
If we were to add these alternate forms for swapping
metadata, we would need to overload the pool creation
command defs, making those definitions ambiguous.
Change run time access to the command_name struct
cmd->cname instead of indirectly through
cmd->command->cname. This removes the two run time
fields from struct command.
All lvconvert functionality has been moved out of the
previous monolithic lvconvert code, except conversions
related to raid/mirror/striped/linear. This switches
that remaining code to be based on command defs, and
standard process_each_lv arg processing. This final
switch results in quite a bit of dead code that is
also removed.
This is a new explicit version of 'lvconvert LV'
which has been an obscure way of triggering polling
to be restarted on an LV that was previously converted.
Lift all the snapshot utilities (merge, split, combine)
out of the monolithic lvconvert implementation, using
the command definitions. The old code associated with
these commands is now unused and will be removed separately.
This lifts the lvconvert --repair and --replace commands
out of the monolithic lvconvert implementation. The
previous calls into repair/replace can no longer be
reached and will be removed in a separate commit.
The new check_single_lv() function is called prior to the
existing process_single_lv(). If the check function returns 0,
the LV will not be processed.
The check_single_lv function is meant to be a standard method
to validate the combination of specific command + specific LV,
and decide if the combination is allowed. The check_single
function can be used by anything that calls process_each_lv.
As commands are migrated to take advantage of command
definitions, each command definition gets its own entry
point which calls process_each for itself, passing a
pair of check_single/process_single functions which can
be specific to the narrowly defined command def.
. Define a prototype for every lvm command.
. Match every user command with one definition.
. Generate help text and man pages from them.
The new file command-lines.in defines a prototype for every
unique lvm command. A unique lvm command is a unique
combination of: command name + required option args +
required positional args. Each of these prototypes also
includes the optional option args and optional positional
args that the command will accept, a description, and a
unique string ID for the definition. Any valid command
will match one of the prototypes.
Here's an example of the lvresize command definitions from
command-lines.in, there are three unique lvresize commands:
lvresize --size SizeMB LV
OO: --alloc Alloc, --autobackup Bool, --force,
--nofsck, --nosync, --noudevsync, --reportformat String, --resizefs,
--stripes Number, --stripesize SizeKB, --poolmetadatasize SizeMB
OP: PV ...
ID: lvresize_by_size
DESC: Resize an LV by a specified size.
lvresize LV PV ...
OO: --alloc Alloc, --autobackup Bool, --force,
--nofsck, --nosync, --noudevsync,
--reportformat String, --resizefs, --stripes Number, --stripesize SizeKB
ID: lvresize_by_pv
DESC: Resize an LV by specified PV extents.
FLAGS: SECONDARY_SYNTAX
lvresize --poolmetadatasize SizeMB LV_thinpool
OO: --alloc Alloc, --autobackup Bool, --force,
--nofsck, --nosync, --noudevsync,
--reportformat String, --stripes Number, --stripesize SizeKB
OP: PV ...
ID: lvresize_pool_metadata_by_size
DESC: Resize a pool metadata SubLV by a specified size.
The three commands have separate definitions because they have
different required parameters. Required parameters are specified
on the first line of the definition. Optional options are
listed after OO, and optional positional args are listed after OP.
This data is used to generate corresponding command definition
structures for lvm in command-lines.h. usage/help output is also
auto generated, so it is always in sync with the definitions.
Every user-entered command is compared against the set of
command structures, and matched with one. An error is
reported if an entered command does not have the required
parameters for any definition. The closest match is printed
as a suggestion, and running lvresize --help will display
the usage for each possible lvresize command.
The prototype syntax used for help/man output includes
required --option and positional args on the first line,
and optional --option and positional args enclosed in [ ]
on subsequent lines.
command_name <required_opt_args> <required_pos_args>
[ <optional_opt_args> ]
[ <optional_pos_args> ]
Command definitions that are not to be advertised/suggested
have the flag SECONDARY_SYNTAX. These commands will not be
printed in the normal help output.
Man page prototypes are also generated from the same original
command definitions, and are always in sync with the code
and help text.
Very early in command execution, a matching command definition
is found. lvm then knows the operation being done, and that
the provided args conform to the definition. This will allow
lots of ad hoc checking/validation to be removed throughout
the code.
Each command definition can also be routed to a specific
function to implement it. The function is associated with
an enum value for the command definition (generated from
the ID string.) These per-command-definition implementation
functions have not yet been created, so all commands
currently fall back to the existing per-command-name
implementation functions.
Using per-command-definition functions will allow lots of
code to be removed which tries to figure out what the
command is meant to do. This is currently based on ad hoc
and complicated option analysis. When using the new
functions, what the command is doing is already known
from the associated command definition.
Kernel 4.10 (dm-crypt v1.15.0) and later supports loading device
tables with crypt segment having key in kernel keyring retention
service.
dmsetup hid key section of tables output. With this patch dmsetup
no longer hides key section if it detects kernel key description
instead of hex byte representation of key itself.
Commit cfb6ef654d introduced
support to change RAID region size.
Add:
- missing conditions to support any types to function with
it in lv_raid_convert(); temporary workaround used until
cli validation patches get merged
- tests requesting "-R " to lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh
involving a cleanup of the script
Related: rhbz1392947
Add:
- support to change region size of existing RaidLVs
(all RAID LV types but raid0/raid0_meta)
- lvconvert-raid-regionsize.sh with test variations
for different RAID types and region sizes
Resolves: rhbz1392947
Add a new update_filemap command to dmstats that allows a filemap
group to be updated:
# dmstats update_filemap --groupid 0 vm.img
/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm.img: Updated group ID 0 with 137 region(s).
This will update the set of regions mapped to the file to reflect
the current file system allocation.
Currently this needs to be run manually - a future update will add
support for monitoring file maps via a daemon, allowing them to be
automatically updated when the underlying file is modified.
This was missing piece in 77997c7673.
When merging origin is inactive (while driver is loaded) we
could already report merge in progress values as there is
no way to activate 'old state' now.
Solves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1280496
The only reasonable behaviour here is to error on
any number out of accepted range (i.e. now numbers
wrapping around with some hidden logic).
As this is plain bug there is no support for
backward compatibility since noone should
set numbers >UINT32_MAX and expect 0 or error
depending on how big number was used....
TODO: more fields might need to be converted.
Add simple function to wrap usage for only uint32 numbers.
Unlike 'int_arg' which accepts full range of 64bit number
this function will error on numbers out of this range:
<0, UINT32_MAX>
When there is 'merging' of an origin in progress, but metadata stil
do provide both origin and snapshot, we should show data from merged
snapshot. This is important mainly for thin case, where there was
a window, where i.e. 'lvs -o+device_id' would report information
about 'already gone' origin thin LV.
This race window is usually hard to trigger but can be ocasionally hit.
Usually shortly after activation, but before polling process manages
to update metadata after merge.
Before starting polling process, validate the merge has actually started
so there is not pointless invoke of lvmpolld.
This also fixes reported message from command, so user has
correct info whether merging has already started or
if it's delayed for next activation.
We can't keep 'display_lvname' for too long - it's using
ringbuffer and keeps limited number of names. So it's
safe only per few simple tests, but can't be used anymore
after some function calls..
(Fixes 00e641ef37)
Add this functionality to lvconvert:
'lvconvert --thin cachedLV --thinpool vg/poll'
Converts cachedLV to external origin (which will be read-only).
New thin volume is created in thinpool LV and it's using external
origin as source for unprovisioned chunks.
This conversion happens online (while volume is in use).
Thin LV remains fully writable.
Cached external origin no longer could be written so cache will be used
ONLY for read operations. For this limitation we require cache mode
to be writethrough (as writeback cannot write to read-only volumes).
When thinLV is later removed cached external origin is again
fully usable, just note, LV remain in 'read-only' mode.
When read-write is needed, 'lvchange -prw' has to be used.
Single external origin could be user by multiple thinLV in
multiple differen thin pool.
When --count=0 interval numbers are miscalculated:
Interval #18446744069414584325 time delta: 999920887ns
Interval #18446744069414584325 current err: -79113ns
End interval #18446744069414584325 duration: 999920887ns
This is because the command line argument is cast through the
uint32_t type, and fixed to UINT32_MAX:
_count = ((uint32_t)_int_args[COUNT_ARG]) ? : UINT32_MAX;
We also need to handle --count=0 specially when calculating the
interval number: since intervals count from #1, this must account
for the implicit "minus one" when converting from zero to the
UINT64_MAX value used (which is too large to store in _int_args).
The time management code mixes tests of the _timer_fd value with
code that should be timer agnostic: this causes problems for users
of the usleep() timer, since it cannot properly detect the start
of a new interval:
Beginning first interval
Interval #18446744069414584348 time delta: 1000000000ns
Interval #18446744069414584348 current err: 0ns
End interval #18446744069414584348 duration: 1000000000ns
Adjusted sample interval duration: 1000000000ns
[...]
Beginning first interval
Interval #18446744069414584349 time delta: 1000000000ns
Interval #18446744069414584349 current err: 0ns
End interval #18446744069414584349 duration: 1000000000ns
Adjusted sample interval duration: 1000000000ns
Separate these out, by defining a _timer_running() call that each
timer implements, and only define _timer_fd if we are compiling
with TIMERFD enabled.
Although the usleep() interval timer is not used if the Linux
TIMERFD interface is available it should still provide reasonably
good timing.
Instead of trying to estimate the error from the duration of the
last sleep, peg it to the start time of the program, and use the
value of ((start_time - now) % interval) to correct the current
interval duration.
This always pulls us back into sync at the end of each interval,
rather than relying on trying to incrementally adjust the time
duration at each interval start.
This greatly reduces drift when the usleep() clock is used.
Drop LV from passed API arg - it's always segment being checked.
Also use_layer is now in full control of lv_info_with_seg_status().
It decides which device needs to be checked to get 'the most info'.
TODO: future version should be able to expose status from
Start moving selection of status taken for a LV into a single place.
The logic for showing info & status has been spread over multiple
places and were doing too complex decision going agains each other.
Unify selection of status of origin & cow scanned device.
TODO: in future we want to grab status for LV and layered LV and have
both statuses present for display - i.e. when 'old snapshot'
of thinLV is takes and there is ongoing merge - at some moment
we are not capable to show all needed info.
pvscan --cache -aay was activating LVs in exported VGs
when it should not.
It appears that this was a regression from commit 9b640c3684
"pvscan: use process_each_vg for autoactivate".
(Automatic) repair may not be allowed during the initial sync of an upconverted
linear LV, because the data on the failing, primary leg hasn't been completely
synchronized to the N-1 other legs of the raid1 LV (replacing failed legs during
repair involves discontinuing access to any replaced legs data, thus preventing
data recovery on the primary leg e.g. via dd_rescue).
Even though repair would not cause data loss when adding legs to a fully synced
raid1 LV, we don't have information yet defining this state yet (e.g. a raid1
LV flag telling the fully synchronized status before any legs were added),
hence can't automatically decide to allow to repair.
If nonetheless a repair on a non-synced raid1 LVs is intended, the "--force"
option has to be provided.
Resolves: rhbz1311765
Validate kernel support for raid0/raid4 on given and
requested segtype before requesting conversions on them.
Because raid10 wasn't present in old RAID targets, add
the same validation to be prepared once we support them.
Check for dm-raid target version with non-standard raid4 mapping expecting the dedicated
parity device in the last rather than the first slot and prohibit to create, activate or
convert to such LVs from striped/raid0* or vice-versa in order to avoid data corruption.
Add related tests to lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh
Resolves: rhbz1388962
On conversions between striped/raid0* and raid4, the kernel expects
the dedicated raid4 parity SubLVs in the first segment area rather than
in the last it's been allocated to, thus the data mapping ain't proper.
Enhance lvconvert (lib/metadata/raid_manip.c) to shift the dedicated
parity SubLVs on conversions from striped/raid0* to raid4 and vice-versa.
In case of raid0_meta -> raid4 where the MD raid0 personality already has
stored RAID array device positions in the superblocks, the MetaLVs have to
be cleared so that the kernel doesn't fail validating the array positions
after lvm has shifted them up by one.
Add more tests to lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh including one to check for
mapping flaws by converting a created raid4 with filesystem -> striped
and fsck it.
Whilst on it:
- add missing direct striped -> raid4 conversion to the takeover array
to avoid an intermim conversion from striped -> raid0*
- clean up the takeover array
- allow lvconvert to actually call lv_raid_convert() on all takeover requests
in order to check parameters and display messages provided by takeover
functions rather than just "...not supported" from within lvconvert
- fix a typo
Resolves: rhbz1386148
If a device disappears after obtaining the list of devices but before
processing it as a member of that list, dmsetup exits with a failure code.
Most commands still produce what output they can in these circumstances,
but 'ls --tree' and 'info -c' with fields depending on device dependencies
didn't. Change this.
Keep for now function logic making its decision on string content.
We need bigger patch converting all things to bit-checks later.
This needs however bigger refactoring.
So this commit reverts some changes from:
c8b6c13015
Commit 088b3d036a allowed repair on cache origin RAID LVs
and restricted lvconvert actions on RAID SubLVs to change number of mirrors, repair,
replace and type changes in order to avoid unsuitable coversions on them.
This introduced a regression prohibiting --splitmirrors on any RAID SubLVs
(e.g. of cache or thin LVs; lvconvert-{cache,thin}-raid.sh tests failing).
Fix allows split mirrors again.
Fix some indenting whilst on it.
When we have already decoded arg_is_set into a local var
or already set segment type - already use these
values instead of repeating calls and string checks.
Seems some error path where not converted to 'new' ECMD return value.
Fix them to always 'goto out'.
Also drop unneeded 'ret = 0' when ret already is 0.
In case a RAID orig LV is being cached and fails, repair is impossible because
"lvconvert --repair" gets rejected.
Fix by allowing repair on cache orig RAID LVs and
"lvconvert --replace/--mirrors/--type {raid*|mirror|striped|linear}" as well.
Allow the same lvconvert actions on any cache pool and metadata RAID SubLVs.
Resolves: rhbz1380532
Make sure that the temporary dm_histogram used for the bounds
argument is freed in the case that the user provided a --bounds
argument on the command line.
The dm-raid target now rejects device rebuild requests during ongoing
resynchronization thus causing 'lvconvert --repair ...' to fail with
a kernel error message. This regresses with respect to failing automatic
repair via the dmeventd RAID plugin in case raid_fault_policy="allocate"
is configured in lvm.conf as well.
Previously allowing such repair request required cancelling the
resynchronization of any still accessible DataLVs, hence reasoning
potential data loss.
Patch allows the resynchronization of still accessible DataLVs to
finish up by rejecting any 'lvconvert --repair ...'.
It enhances the dmeventd RAID plugin to be able to automatically repair
by postponing the repair after synchronization ended.
More tests are added to lvconvert-rebuild-raid.sh to cover single
and multiple DataLV failure cases for the different RAID levels.
- resolves: rhbz1371717
Reload of thin-pool origin_only is designed to only post messages
to a thin-pool. It's not intended to be used for reload of thin-pool
table. Fix it by using standard call 'lv_update_and_reload()'.
Reinstantiate reporting of metadata percent usage for cache volumes.
Also show the same percentage with hidden cache-pool LV.
This regression was caused by optimization for a single-ioctl in
2.02.155.
Allow RAID scrubbing on cache origin sub-LV
This patch adds the ability to perform RAID scrubbing on the cache
origin sub-LV (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1169495). Cache origin
operations are restricted to non-clustered RAID LVs until there can
be further testing in a cluster (even for exclusive activation).
User can either specify directly _corig LV
or he can specify cache LV and operation --syncation is
passed ONLY to _corig LV.
If users wants to manipulation with cache-pool devices - he
needs to specify this object name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Introduce 'hard limit' for max number of cache chunks.
When cache target operates with too many chunks (>10e6).
When user is aware of related possible troubles he
may increase the limit in lvm.conf.
Also verbosely inform user about possible solution.
Code works for both lvcreate and lvconvert.
Lvconvert fully supports change of chunk_size when caching LV
(and validates for compatible settings).
Commit e947c362dd introduced
config_settings.h file for central place to store all definitions for
config options. By mistake, it used report/colums_as_rows instead
of report/columns_as_rows (missing "n" in "columns").
If the number of stripes requested is incompatible with the requested
type of raid, give an error instead of adjusting it.
If no stripes argument is supplied, continue to use an appropriate
default.
a579ba2ac2 fixed a regression causing a segfault if no external
origin existed but broke the logic leading to erroneous error
messages and creations of split off exported VGs in case the
external origin and the pool LVs were allocated on different PVs.
- resolves rhbz1367459
Creating a RaidLV in VGs with very small extent sizes caused
late failure in the kernel giving a not very informative error
message. Catch the attempt early and display failure message
'Unable to create RAID LV: requires minimum VG extent size 4.00 KiB'.
- resoves rhbz1179970
'pvmove -n name pv1 pv2' called with the name of a top-level LV
failed with mentioned commit.
Enhance pvmove-raid-segtypes.sh to test for prohibited RAID SubLV moves.
'pvmove -n name pv1 pv2' allows to collocate multiple RAID SubLVs
on pv2 (e.g. results in collocated raidlv_rimage_0 and raidlv_rimage_1),
thus causing loss of resilence and/or performance of the RaidLV.
Fix this pvmove flaw leading to potential data loss in case of PV failure
by preventing any SubLVs from collocation on any PVs of the RaidLV.
Still allow to collocate any DataLVs of a RaidLV with their sibling MetaLVs
and vice-versa though (e.g. raidlv_rmeta_0 on pv1 may still be moved to pv2
already holding raidlv_rimage_0).
Because access to the top-level RaidLV name is needed,
promote local _top_level_lv_name() from raid_manip.c
to global top_level_lv_name().
- resolves rhbz1202497
Enforce mirror/raid0/1/10/4/5/6 type specific maximum images when
creating LVs or converting them from mirror <-> raid1.
Document those maxima in the lvcreate/lvconvert man pages.
- resolves rhbz1366060
Some settings are not suitable for override in interactive/shell
mode because such settings may confuse the code and it may end
up with unexpected behaviour. This is because of the fact that
once we're in the interactive/shell mode, we have already applied
some settings for the shell itself and we can't override them
further because we're already using those settings to drive the
interactive/shell mode. Such settings would get ignored silently
or, in worse case, they would mess up the existing configuration.
When lvm commands are executed in lvm shell, we cover the whole lvm
command execution within this shell now. That means, all messages logged
and status caught during each command execution is now recorded in the
log report, including overall command's return code.
We may call arg_count/grouped_arg_count/arg_value soon enough that
cmd->arg_values is not set yet.
Normally, when running a command, we execute lvm_run_command which in
turn calls _process_command_line to allocate and parse the command line
values and stores them in cmd->arg_values.
However, if we run lvm shell, this one doesn't accept any command line
options and we parse the command line for each command that is executed
within the lvm shell then. If we used any code that tries to access
cmd->arg_values through any of the the arg handling functions too
early, we could end up with a segfault due to uninitialized (NULL)
cmd->arg_values.
This patch just saves extra checks in all the code where arg handling
may be called too early so that the cmd->arg_values is not set up yet.
This does not apply to any of existing code, but subsequent patches
will need that.
With patches that will follow, this will make it possible to widen log
report coverage when commands are executed from lvm shell so the amount
of messages that may end up in stderr/stdout instead of log report are
minimized.
Add new log_context=shell and with log_object_type=cmd and
log_object_name=<command_name> for command log report to collect
overall return code from last command (this is reported under
log_type=status).
Currently, the output is separated in 3 parts and each part can go into
a separate and user-defined file descriptor:
- common output (stdout by default, customizable by LVM_OUT_FD environment variable)
- error output (stderr by default, customizable by LVM_ERR_FD environment variable)
- report output (stdout by default, customizable by LVM_REPORT_FD environment variable)
For example, each type of output goes to different output file:
[0] fedora/~ # export LVM_REPORT_FD=3
[0] fedora/~ # lvs fedora vg/abc 1>out 2>err 3>report
[0] fedora/~ # cat out
[0] fedora/~ # cat err
Volume group "vg" not found
Cannot process volume group vg
[0] fedora/~ # cat report
LV VG Attr LSize Layout Role CTime
root fedora -wi-ao---- 19.00g linear public Wed May 27 2015 08:09:21
swap fedora -wi-ao---- 500.00m linear public Wed May 27 2015 08:09:21
Another example in LVM shell where the report goes to "report" file:
[0] fedora/~ # export LVM_REPORT_FD=3
[0] fedora/~ # lvm 3>report
(in lvm shell)
lvm> vgs
(content of "report" file)
[1] fedora/~ # cat report
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
fedora 1 2 0 wz--n- 19.49g 0
(in lvm shell)
lvm> lvs
(content of "report" file)
[1] fedora/~ # cat report
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
fedora 1 2 0 wz--n- 19.49g 0
LV VG Attr LSize Layout Role CTime
root fedora -wi-ao---- 19.00g linear public Wed May 27 2015 08:09:21
swap fedora -wi-ao---- 500.00m linear public Wed May 27 2015 08:09:21
The MD raid6 personality being used to drive lvm raid6 LVs does
read-modify-write updates to any stripes and thus relies on correct
P and Q Syndromes being written during initial synchronization or
it may fail reconstructing proper user data in case of SubLVs failing.
We may not allow the '--nosync' option on
creation of raid6 LVs for that reason.
Update/fix 'man lvcreate' in that regard.
add lvcreate-raid-nosync.sh test script.
- Resolves rhbz1358532
We don't need to refresh whole cmd context if we drop profile after
processing LVM command - just like we don't refresh cmd context when
we're applying the profile. It's because profiles contain only safe
subset of settings which do not require complete cmd context refresh.
This patch calls process_profilable_config instead of
refresh_toolcontext if there was profile applied for the LVM
command only, not --config which requires toolcontext refresh.
The process_profilable_config just sets proper values based on
values of profilable settings, but it does not do complete
reinitialization of various parts (e.g. filters, logging etc.).
'lvchange --resync LV' or 'lvchange --syncaction repair LV' request the
RAID layout specific parity blocks in raid4/5/6 to be recreated or the
mirrored blocks to be copied again from the master leg/copy for raid1/10,
thus not allowing a rebuild of a particular PV.
Introduce repeatable option '--[raid]rebuild PV' to allow to request
rebuilds of specific PVs in a RaidLV which are known to contain corrupt
data (e.g. rebuild a raid1 master leg).
Add test lvchange-rebuild-raid.sh to test/shell doing rebuild
variations on raid1/10 and 5; add aux function check_status_chars
to support the new test.
- Resolves rhbz1064592
Prepare for new segment type conversion functionality in cases that
currently fail. In the short-term, we need to do this while limiting
the changes to the code paths for the conversions that are already
supported.
on any thin snap external origin LV which caused a segfault
when none existed as exposed by the vgsplit-thin.sh test.
Only call lv_is_on_pvs() if an external origin LV actually
exists and correct the related splitting logic.
General RAID and RAID segment type specific checks are added
to merge.c. New static _check_raid_seg() is called on each segment
of a RaidLV (which have just one) from check_lv_segments().
New checks caught some unititialized segment members
which are addressed here as well:
- initialize seg->region_size to 0 in lvcreate.c for raid0/raid0_meta
- initialize list seg->origin_list in lv_manip.c
Add matching support for -Z option also we doing full conversion
to cache-pool.
Extending coversion message to show which pool type is created
and whether the metadata will be wiped or remain unmodified.
Follow-up to 27a767d5e8.
Tunning behavior in a way we always prompt when option --zero is NOT specified.
Without -Z lvm expects user wants to 'reset' cache-pool metadata
(they could have been splitted from some cached LV)
If user doesn't want to zero metadata he needs to specify -Zn.
User may also avoid prompting for zeroing by using -Zy for
cache-pool (basically equals using --yes without -Z being given)
(unlike full convert case, there is no cache-pool being converted,
so there is not 'uncoditional' prompt in this case).
When volume was lvconvert-ed to a thin-volume with external origin,
then in case thin-pool was in non-zeroing mode
it's been printing WARNING about not zeroing thin volume - but
this is wanted and expected - so nothing to warn about.
So in this particular use case WARNING needs to be suppressed.
Adding parameter support for lvcreate_params.
So now lvconvert creates 'normal thin LV' in read-only mode
(so any read will 'return 0' for a moment)
then deactivate regular thin LV and reacreate in 'final R/RW' mode
thin LV with external origin and activate again.
When cache pool is reused for a new cached volume, there is
normally no need to 'keep' old cache-pool metadata as this
could cause major data lose.
Unlike with 'lvcreate -H -LX --cachepool' conversion, this lvconvert
path left the metadata unzeroed - partly for making easier some
debugging, but this was rather a bug.
So to keep possible reattach of 'unzeroed' metadata, user
now has to use 'lvconvert -Zn' for such conversion. In this case
the prompt will appear about possibe data loss and to proceed,
user has to confirm such operation. Without -Zn metadata are wiped.
Commit 3928c96a37 introduced
new defaults for raid number of stripes, which may cause
backwards compatibility issues with customer scripts.
Adding configurable option 'raid_stripe_all_devices' defaulting
to '0' (i.e. off = new behaviour) to select the old behaviour
of using all PVs in the VG or those provided on the command line.
In case any scripts rely on the old behaviour, just set
'raid_strip_all_devices = 1'.
- resolves rhbz1354650
The --uuid, --major and --alldevices arguments were incorrectly tested
after confirming argc is > 0, in a branch that only executes if argc
== 0 (i.e. they were unreachable).
Move all device checks before the test for argc and log an appropriate
error before returning.
raid0/raid0_meta type LVs don't have a default number of stripes when
created without '-i/--stripes Stripes' whereas other raid types have one.
Patch sets the default for raid0/raid0_meta to 2 stripes.
The default amount of stripes for raid4/5/10 is changed to 2 and for raid6 to 3
rather than using all PVs in the VG or those provided on the command line.
This is to avoid unintended high number of stripes in case of many PVs.
To select a different amount of stripes from the default,
use 'lvcreate -i/--stripes Stripes'.
- resolves rhbz1354650
Resync attempts on raid0/raid0_meta via 'lvchange --resync ...'
cause segfaults.
'lvchange --syncaction ...' doesn't get rejected either.
Prohibit both on raid0/raid0_meta LVs.
- resolves rhbz1354656
4420d41fea introduced recursive split of lvs which
splits a top-level LV together with it's sub LVs.
This lead to invalid temporary list pointers
causing hangs/OOM situations.
Patch updates the temporary list pointer
referencing a moved sub LV.
- resolves rhbz1354686
Make the --filemap switch take no arguments and instead accept one
or more files on the command line to be mapped and placed into
groups.
This allows --filemap to be used with a glob:
# dmstats create --filemap *
rhel5.10-1.qcow2: Created new group with 87 region(s) as group ID 1564.
rhel5.10.qcow2: Created new group with 8 region(s) as group ID 1651.
rhel7.0-1.qcow2: Created new group with 11 region(s) as group ID 1659.
rhel7.0.qcow2: Created new group with 1454 region(s) as group ID 1670.
vm.img: Created new group with 2 region(s) as group ID 3124.
lvconvert --splitcache VG/CachePool_corig
Allow the split via the hidden/used cache pool for the time being,
since the new lvconvert code did intend to allow it, but was just
missing the exception in the list of hidden LVs that were allowed.
The preferred method for splitcache is to run it on the visible
cache LV, not the hidden cache pool. That may eventually become
the only method since we try to avoid running commands on
hidden LVs.
When a 'dmstats create --filemap' operation fails (e.g. during
open(2), close(2), or dm_stats_create_regions_from_fd()), use the
canonical version of the path. This avoids cryptic/confusing error
messages when symbolic links exist in the path argument given:
# findmnt /var/lib/libvirt/images -otarget,source
TARGET SOURCE
/var/lib/libvirt/images /dev/mapper/vg_hex-lv_images
# readlink /var/lib/libvirt/images/my.img
/boot/my.img
# dmstats create --filemap /var/lib/libvirt/images/my.img
Cannot map file: not a device-mapper device.
Could not create regions from file /var/lib/libvirt/images/my.img
Command failed
Using the canonical path the error is immediately obvious:
# dmstats create --filemap /var/lib/libvirt/images/my.img
Cannot map file: not a device-mapper device.
Could not create regions from file /boot/my.img
Command failed
Grouping is also useful in combination with --segments: creating a
group allows both individual segment data and data for the device
as a whole to be presented in the same report.
Support grouping for 'create --segments' in the same manner as for
'create --filemap'; group regions by default, applying an optional
alias specified with --alias, unless the user specifies --nogroup.
Add a new option to the create command to create regions that map the
extents of a file:
# dmstats create --filemap /path/to/file
/path/to/file: Created new group with 10 region(s) as group ID 0.
When performing a --filemap no device argument is required (and
supplying one results in error) since the device to bind to is implied
by the file path and is obtained directly from an fstat().
Grouping may be optionally disabled by the --nogroup switch: in this
case the command will report each region individually:
# dmstats create --nogroup --filemap /path/to/file
/path/to/file: Created new region with 1 area as region ID 0.
/path/to/file: Created new region with 1 area as region ID 1.
/path/to/file: Created new region with 1 area as region ID 2.
When grouping regions the group alias is automatically set to the
basename (as returned by dm_basename()) of the provided file.
This can be overridden to a user-defined value at the command line by
use of the --alias option.
If grouping is disabled no alias can be set.
Use of offset and subdivision options (--start, --length, --segments,
--areas, --areasize).
Setting aux_data and histograms for groups is possible but is not
currently implemented.
The code could perform this conversion but ironically
did not recognize the standard command form, only the
the unpreferred "implication-based" command form.
"lvconvert --type linear VG/RaidLV" would fail, but
"lvconvert --mirrors 0 VG/RaidLV" would succeed.
The code could perform this conversion but ironically
did not recognize the standard command form, only the
the unpreferred "implication-based" command form.
"lvconvert --type linear VG/MirrorLV" would fail, but
"lvconvert --mirrors 0 VG/MirrorLV" would succeed.
