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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Teigland
0de56eeaad man: more rewording for lvcreate size 2016-07-07 13:11:43 -05:00
David Teigland
351bcf5f82 man: clarify lvcreate size in extents 2016-07-06 11:35:50 -05:00
Bryn M. Reeves
93034d0b69 doc: document --area, --region, and --group in dmstats.8.in 2016-07-05 19:53:17 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
cf0fa3d693 dmstats: rename --auxdata to --userdata 2016-07-05 19:53:17 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
14b74c360f dmstats: rename 'aux_data' to 'user_data'
Make it clear that the "aux data" presented in reports is the user
data stored in the field (and does not include any library-internal
state such as group descriptors) by renaming the field to user_data
and changing the heading to "UserData".
2016-07-05 19:53:17 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
f403ac8bf0 doc: update dmstats.8.in for groups 2016-07-05 19:53:16 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
f27e95b25a docs: remove obsolete note from dmstats.8.in 2016-07-04 12:16:50 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
d914151591 man: lvs: move doc about --all so it's ordered alphabetically in the man page 2016-06-24 14:57:09 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
a910052a2e man: document --configreport, --logonly, --reportformat 2016-06-24 14:51:20 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
cfdc87b623 lvmdump: also collect output from lsblk command when running lvmdump -s
lsblk provides nice and quick overview of the storage/sysfs structure
that is useful for debugging - collect its output when running lvmdump -s.
2016-06-09 13:54:15 +02:00
Tobias Stoeckmann
68e0979724 man: fixed typo in lvcreate.8
It's supposed to be "smaller than" instead of "smaller then".
2016-06-03 12:46:47 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
8012c223e0 man: lvmconfig: add note about --type diff and --mergedconfig 2016-06-02 14:07:07 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
bf8d00985a raid0: Add raid0 segment type.
This remains experimental and quite restrictive so should only be used
for testing at this stage.  (E.g. lvreduce is not supported.)
2016-05-23 16:46:38 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
197066c863 lvchange: allow change of cache mode
Add support for active cache LV.
Handle --cachemode args validation during command line processing.
Rework some lvm2 internal to use lvm2 defined  CACHE_MODE  enums
indepently on libdm defines and use enum around the code instead
of passing and comparing strings.
2016-05-19 18:40:14 +02:00
David Teigland
d4e434d1e6 pvs: new attr and field for unchosen duplicate device
When there are duplicate devices for a PV, one device
is preferred and chosen to exist in the VG.  The other
devices are not used by lvm, but are displayed by pvs
with a new PV attr "d", indicating that they are
unchosen duplicate PVs.

The "duplicate" reporting field is set to "duplicate"
when the PV is an unchosen duplicate, and that field
is blank for the chosen PV.
2016-05-06 09:00:00 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
673d4f7453 cleanup: use unsigned with EPOCH printf format 2016-05-05 23:55:20 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d1ecbfa52d lvcreate: improve --chunksize support for cached volume.
Support parsing --chunksize option also when converting.
Now user can use cache pool created with i.e. 32K chunksize,
while in caching user can select 512K blocks.
Tool is supposed to validate cache metadata size is big enough
to support such chunk size. Otherwise error is shown.
2016-05-05 23:50:10 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
07d92322c1 man: lvcreate doc passthrough
Add few more words about passthough mode.
2016-04-26 23:29:58 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d90d99b23d man: lvchange updates
Drop never existing --degrade.
2016-04-26 23:29:58 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
2d0d58b867 pre-release 2016-04-01 20:29:52 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
06ef7ba876 doc: describe lvmlockd/lvmpolld features as available if LVM compiled with lockd/polld support 2016-03-30 14:10:56 +02:00
David Teigland
6807eb8863 man: vgcreate shared 2016-03-10 15:40:37 -06:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a494d85ef6 man: drop extra braces
doclifter tool noticed wrong brackets.
2016-03-10 18:38:54 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
386208e593 man: updates
Continuing with lvconvert style updates.

Minimize usage of '\:' as zero-width break space, since html renderers
do not handle this groff sign well (some of them seems to even render
':' there).
But since we do not want see badly rendered man pages itself, prefer
the 'man visual' appearence over html page generation (man2html should
be actually fixed).

Start to use 'user input option' with Capitals more consistently.
2016-03-10 18:38:54 +01:00
David Teigland
a8319e62c0 vgscan: add --notifydbus to send a notification
This command option can be used to trigger a D-Bus
notification independent of the usual notifications
that are sent from other commands as an effect of
changes to PV/VG/LV state.  If lvm is not built with
dbus notification support or if notify_dbus is disabled
in the config, this command will exit with an error.
2016-03-07 10:50:45 -06:00
Peter Rajnoha
e447ab87e9 man: lvrename: also mention possibility to rename historical logical volumes 2016-03-04 11:51:57 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
5764c484ea man: Add some information about historical LVs. 2016-03-03 17:09:25 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
25bf0beedb man: minor updates
Minor fixes in few pages.
2016-03-03 10:17:03 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
fd349cb2e5 man: lvconvert updates
Improving style (following lvcreate way).
Sorting options alphabetically.
2016-03-03 10:17:03 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3b93c11030 man: fix mising braces
Fixing some reported issued found by:
http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html

Reported-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
2016-03-01 14:02:43 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
9898126596 report: Shift (u)sed pv_attr under (a)llocatable.
Showing 'u' in the pv_attr reporting field is mostly unnecessary because
most PVs are allocatable, and being allocatable implies it is (u)sed,
and this is already obvious from other fields in the default 'pvs'
output like the VG name.

So move the new (u)sed pv_attr from character position 4 to 1, and only
show it in those rare cases when the PV is not (a)llocatable or the
relevant metadata is missing.

(Scripts should not be using pv_attr, but rather pv_allocatable,
pv_exported, pv_missing, pv_in_use etc.)
2016-02-26 15:46:37 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
485bce1ae3 man: lvs updates 2016-02-18 16:49:38 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
5987562cf9 lvmdbus: Add new daemon. 2016-02-17 23:53:35 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
055c628e38 man: fix list of restricted LV name suffixes 2016-02-17 15:38:27 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
08de88535e report: identify used PVs in pv_attr field with 'u' char 2016-02-15 12:44:46 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
672deaebc5 man: pvresize: remove old comment about inability to resize PV with more mdas 2016-02-12 16:29:47 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
fcbef05aae doc: change fsf address
Hmm rpmlint suggest fsf is using a different address these days,
so lets keep it up-to-date
2016-01-21 12:11:37 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3e09f916b4 man: show hidden pieces
W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man8/lvm.8.gz 491: warning: macro `_cdata',' not defined

rpmlint actually notices we had few hidden word in man page.
the line cannot start with apostrophe as it has then a different
meaning.
2016-01-21 12:11:35 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
640c45d5a4 man: dmsetup
Typo in CMD_UDEVCREATECOOKIE macro name noticed by rpmlint.
2016-01-21 12:10:26 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
7f6a1e6bba man: mention GPT id for LVM in pvcreate man page 2016-01-19 15:28:44 +01:00
David Teigland
9e336582f4 man lvmlockd: mention pvmove restriction 2016-01-12 12:01:53 -06:00
Peter Rajnoha
8d11468ab2 man: lvs: document F,D and M thin pool health status chars for lv_attr in lvs man page 2016-01-08 15:47:01 +01:00
David Teigland
3bbf89e9ec man lvm: add section about unique VG names 2015-12-02 10:37:25 -06:00
Peter Rajnoha
1ea8afd3ca lvmconfig: add --sinceversion for --type new
Just for convenience to display all new configuration settings
introduced since given version (before, there was only --atversion
to display settings introduced in concrete version).

For example:
	$ lvmconfig --type new --sinceversion 2.2.120
	allocation {
		# cache_mode="writethrough"
		# cache_settings {
		# }
	}
	global {
		use_lvmlockd=0
		# lvmlockd_lock_retries=3
		# sanlock_lv_extend=256
		use_lvmpolld=1
	}
	activation {
	}
	# report {
		# compact_output_cols=""
		# time_format="%Y-%m-%d %T %z"
	# }
	local {
		# host_id=0
	}
2015-11-25 14:12:12 +01:00
David Teigland
fe64d3a2e2 man lvmcache: include chunk size 2015-11-23 11:57:41 -06:00
Stéphane Aulery
dd9a05b5ae man: improve cmirrord.8 manpage
- Keywords in bold
- Add syslog and signal ref.
- Sort see also sections

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2015-11-16 01:15:03 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
7f125c1116 man: pvs/vgs/lvs and -o+, -o-, -o# 2015-10-30 15:47:56 +01:00
David Teigland
73e679f33f man: document possible lvmetad -l values
In the man page and the lvmetad help output.
2015-10-21 13:36:57 -05:00
Ondrej Kozina
c15649b3af lvmetad.8.in: update man page with timeout info 2015-10-20 15:45:21 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
8b9533f38f dmeventd: support logging on stdout
Add new supported option '-l' log to stdout/stderr.

It has to be paired with '-f' (foreground run).
2015-10-13 15:22:57 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3f03d46fc1 man: dmeventd update 2015-10-13 15:15:43 +02:00
David Teigland
5446d17756 man lvmsystemid: fix typos 2015-10-08 13:26:09 -05:00
David Teigland
c9ff5c8223 man lvmsystemd: fix typo 2015-10-08 13:14:28 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
ded9452174 man: lvcreate continue
Finish remaing bits of updating pages for better rendering
with -Thtml, -Tps.
2015-10-06 15:23:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4b1cadbd87 man: fsadm 2015-10-06 15:21:36 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
5f7a94a03e blkdeactivate: recognize and deactivate MD devices too 2015-10-06 13:25:41 +02:00
David Teigland
5e5d48348b man lvmcache: updates for mode and policy
Correct some things, e.g. set mode and policy on
the cache lv, not the pool, lvm.conf field for
mode changed.

Add smq which was missing.

Make the sections on cache mode and cache policy
consistent in structure and style.
2015-10-01 14:23:39 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
796e3fb7e4 man: update lvm pages 2015-10-01 15:03:34 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
867a36b419 man: update dmsetup and dmstats pages
Try to provide properly rendered pages no just with
plain 'man' but also for:

man -Tps
man -Thtml
man2html
2015-10-01 15:03:12 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
cb82919b0d systemd: use {local,remote}-fs-pre.target instead of {local,remote}-fs.target
We want most of our units to be started before any local/remote mount
points are mounted - we used {local,remote}-fs.target for this purpose
before, but it was not 100% correct as there's even {local,remote}-fs-pre.target
special systemd unit reserved for this exact purpose.

See also man 7 systemd.special and "local-fs-pre.target"/"remote-fs-pre.target"
description.
2015-09-23 13:30:51 +02:00
David Teigland
532b2d2d4e man lvmthin: use --poolmetadatasize option
when extending a pool metadata lv, rather than
referencing the _tmeta device.
2015-09-22 13:44:09 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
fd773dffb2 man: drop superfluous '--' in lvmconf man page for --enable/disable-halvm 2015-09-22 14:28:31 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
cfe869692f man: update man pages
Start to use 'italic' when the argument is not a fixed string.
Keep 'bold' when user cannot use any other string instead.
2015-09-22 00:08:44 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
330d584617 man: use PD/HP for compressed lines
Using .PD 0  to user zero spacing together with .HP is the best way
for condensed list of commands.
2015-09-18 17:45:46 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
11d6f81316 man: enhance dmsetup/dmstats
Document more supported options.
Cleanup man-style when documenting options.
Use .PD 0  and .HP
2015-09-18 17:45:46 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
548c09acfc man: Add all_man Makefile target.
Use 'make all_man' to generate all man pages (regardless of
configuration options) or 'make install_all_man' to install them.
2015-09-15 13:14:16 +01:00
David Teigland
8b8103efef man lvmlockd: move and update text about vgremove
The requirement to stop VGs before vgremove applies
to both sanlock and dlm VGs.
2015-09-11 14:34:22 -05:00
David Teigland
d323acdfec man lvmlockd: fix typo 2015-09-09 15:43:28 -05:00
David Teigland
81b0e9de7c man lvmlockd: mention device used for first vgcreate 2015-09-09 15:21:10 -05:00
Alasdair G Kergon
f5a3b05c7a pre-release 2015-09-05 23:46:22 +01:00
David Teigland
43d6b5b375 man lvmlockd: add section about first sanlock VG
Add a section specifically about creating the first
sanlock VG.
2015-09-04 13:01:03 -05:00
David Teigland
869c0bdeb8 man lvmlockctl: add man page 2015-09-04 11:05:13 -05:00
David Teigland
b00ee99a21 man lvmlockd: explain the use of lvmlockctl kill 2015-09-04 11:05:13 -05:00
Bryn M. Reeves
cebbb0feaf dmstats: replace histogram command with switch
Replace the histogram stats subcommand with a --histogram switch
to enable histogram related fields for both list and report output.

To avoid overloading the existing --histogram rename it to --bounds:
this is also a better description of the option.
2015-09-03 23:39:11 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
84d88cb2cf dmstats: add --notimesuffix switch
Add a switch to disable the printing of time unit suffixes in
histogram bounds descriptions.
2015-09-03 22:04:10 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
b86bd3b074 man: fix typo in dmstats.8.in 2015-09-02 23:01:46 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
3414601788 man: document --regionid in dmstats.8.in 2015-09-02 21:03:03 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
d31c4e0bc1 man: update dmstats.8.in examples
Make sure that correct 'dmstats create' messages are shown for all
examples and fix LV examples to use correct dmsetup output name
format (vg/lv -> vg-lv).
2015-09-02 21:03:03 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
031cd2bb0d dmstats: improve stats column names
Improve the names and labels of stats reports columns, ensure that
the minimum field widths allow unambiguos labels to be shown and
update the man page descriptions of these fields.
2015-09-02 21:03:03 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
3c0fc6f0da dmstats: add histogram support
Add support to dmstats to create and report histograms.

Add a --histogram switch to 'create' that accepts a string
description of bin boundaries and DR_STATS and DR_STATS_META fields
to report bin configuration and absolute and relative histogram
values:

  hist_bins
  hist_bounds
  hist_ranges
  hist_count
  hist_count_bounds
  hist_count_ranges
  hist_percent
  hist_percent_bounds
  hist_percent_ranges

A new 'histogram' subcommand displays a report that emphasizes
histogram data as either counters or percentage values.
2015-09-02 21:02:12 +01:00
Ondrej Kozina
ab5df4bc5c lvmpolld.8.in: add missing space 2015-09-02 17:24:34 +02:00
David Teigland
09b2649c5f man lvmlockd: various improvements 2015-08-28 11:38:26 -05:00
Alasdair G Kergon
cc17210bce man: Add install_full_man makefile target.
'make install_full_man' installs all the man pages regardless of
which components were enabled when 'configure' was run.
2015-08-28 13:03:18 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
1307fafe0f man: replace to with for
Better word.
2015-08-26 11:24:41 +02:00
Bryn M. Reeves
e4145ebc47 dmstats: add --precise switch to enable nanosecond counters. 2015-08-24 20:03:21 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
c868609cff man: fix sqm typo 2015-08-21 15:35:45 +02:00
Ferenc Wágner
8821cc416e cmirrord manual: add --foreground and --help options 2015-08-20 19:06:47 +02:00
Bryn M. Reeves
23770214a9 man: fix program_id string in dmstats.8.in 2015-08-20 17:27:28 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
bc39506792 man: update dmstats.8.in examples 2015-08-18 14:40:45 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
f3891e90e3 dmstats: make -v enable per area reports for 'stats list'
When dmstats is run with -v or higher enable a per-area reporting
mode for statistics regions. This will output one row per area
(rather than one row per region) and adds additional fields of use
when viewing areas:

 area_id    - index within the region assigned by libdm-stats
 area_start - the start location of the area in the containing
              device.
2015-08-14 22:03:37 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
9b3dc72506 dmstats: add 'interval' and 'interval_ns' report fields
Add a pair of fields to expose the current per-interval duation
estimate. The 'interval' field provides a real value in units of
seconds and the 'interval_ns' field provides the same quantity
expressed as a whole number of nanoseconds.
2015-08-14 13:36:50 +01:00
Bryn M. Reeves
6b81ac5807 dmstats: replace --force with new stats-specific --alldevices
The '--force' switch is only used by dmstats to allow either
creation or deletion of one or more regions on all devices.

These operations do not carry any risk: just a possible mess of
region IDs to be cleaned up.

Remove the use of '--force' for stats commands and change current
uses to a new '--alldevices' switch.
2015-08-13 19:05:46 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
6cde12a013 cache: man updates
Better man for cachepolicy and cachesettings.
2015-08-12 14:11:17 +02:00
Bryn M. Reeves
d62a8d2f15 dmstats: add libdm-stats library and 'dmsetup stats' command
Add the libdm-stats module to libdm: this implements a simple interface
for creating, managing and interrogating I/O statistics regions and
areas on device-mapper devices.

The library interface is documented in libdevmapper.h and provides a
'dm_stats' handle that is used to perform statistics operations and
obtain data.

Public methods are provided to create and destroy handles and to list,
create, and destroy statistics regions as well as to obtain and parse
counter data and calculate rate-based metrics.

This commit also adds a 'dmsetup stats' (aka 'dmstats') command with
'clear', 'create', 'delete', 'list', 'print', and 'report' sub-commands.

See the library documentation and the dmstats.8 manual page for detailed
API and command descriptions.
2015-08-09 14:37:58 +01:00
David Teigland
b59cdf0892 man: mention system ID in vgexport and vgimport 2015-08-07 16:35:07 -05:00
David Teigland
993fe07a3c man: add lockd bits to relevant commands 2015-08-07 16:25:00 -05:00
David Teigland
2bbf2fa8eb man lvmlockd: update 2015-08-07 15:18:44 -05:00
David Teigland
1c013e7ae2 man lvmcache: mention LVs must be in the same VG 2015-08-06 10:06:21 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
ce1528359a man: document --nameprefixes 2015-08-04 14:03:50 +02:00
Bryn M. Reeves
a161e29c59 dmsetup: Add --count and --interval to reports.
For example, to monitor active devices every second you can now run
dmsetup info -c --count 0.
2015-07-31 21:59:34 +01:00
David Teigland
d41bab4028 man lvmlockd: update method for changing lock type
The old description did not work.
2015-07-13 16:33:58 -05:00
David Teigland
222bb2b88d lockd: note that external origins don't work in lockd VGs
in a comment at the point where it fails, and in the
lvmlockd man page.
2015-07-10 15:53:21 -05:00
David Teigland
b8538f5dcd vgchange: allow changing to lockd type when mirrors exist
and update lvmlockd man page to reflect the fact that
mirror LVs work correctly in lockd VGs.
2015-07-10 15:53:21 -05:00
Andy Grover
d77546773b man: add lvmlocal.conf to config cascade
see BZ 1241182, lvmlocal is searched before lvm.conf but after
lvm_<tag>.conf.
2015-07-08 10:02:28 -07:00
David Teigland
6a8cc1dcd4 man lvmlockd: minor updates 2015-07-06 15:32:41 -05:00
David Teigland
114744cee1 config: rename lock_retries lvmlockd_lock_retries
Because it only applies to lvmlockd requests, but
sounded too general.
2015-07-06 11:44:28 -05:00
David Teigland
fe70b03de2 Add lvmlockd 2015-07-02 15:42:26 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
07a34184db lvmconfig: display comment about value from existing config being used
Display comment abour value from existing config being used. For example:

$ lvmconfig --type full --withsummary report/compact_output report/buffered

 # Configuration option report/compact_output.
 # Do not print empty report fields.
 # Value defined in existing configuration has been used for this setting.
 compact_output=1

 # Configuration option report/buffered.
 # Buffer report output.
 buffered=1
2015-06-25 13:51:54 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
c794c163b5 lvmconfig: add --type full to display full tree of settings
The lvmconfig --type full is actually a combination of --type current
and --type missing together with --mergedconfig options used.

The overall outcome is a configuration tree with settings as LVM sees
it when it looks for the values - that means, if the setting is defined
in some config source (lvm.conf, --config, lvmlocal.conf or any profile
that is used), the setting is used. Otherwise, if the setting is not
defined in any part of the config cascade, the defaults are used.

The --type full displays exactly this final tree with all the values
defined, either coming from configuration tree or from defaults.
2015-06-25 13:33:52 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
110a0745cd man: Add missing env vars to lvm man page. 2015-06-24 20:43:35 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
a4724350e4 lvmconfig: add --withspaces option
We shouldn't be adding spaces by default in output as that
may be be used already in scripts and especially for the eval
in shell scripts where spaces are not allowed between key
and value!

Add --withspaces option to lvmconfig for pretty output with
more space in for readability.
2015-06-24 13:19:23 +02:00
David Teigland
3d9957e3dd man vgchange lvchange: mention activation option s
and improve the existing text about existing
activation options.
2015-06-16 13:28:07 -05:00
David Teigland
857296c823 man lvm: mention hyphens in option names 2015-06-16 10:33:01 -05:00
David Teigland
ce18fb61c0 lvmcache: mention lvconvert --cachemode
for changing the cache mode on an existing LV.
2015-06-15 14:30:58 -05:00
David Teigland
3225f8d175 man: lvmthin chunk and metadata sizes
Clear some stale information, and give a suggestion to use
a metadata size of 1GiB.
2015-05-27 15:53:01 -05:00
Ondrej Kozina
77fa958c1e lvmpolld.8.in: man page rewrite
- add client functionality
- fill in long option variants
2015-05-15 20:33:47 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
bf19bbbd55 lvm.8.in: add reference to lvpoll built-in command 2015-05-15 20:32:39 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
4f1c1f3d6b lvmdump.8.in: describe lvmpolld related option 2015-05-15 20:32:32 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
ce3c457dcc lvm-lvpoll.8.in: man page for built-in command 2015-05-15 20:32:16 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
239fb95fde lvmpolld.8.in: hide origin of lvmpolld man page
:)
2015-05-15 20:32:08 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
03aec36fc0 man: missed y|n for wipesignatures 2015-05-15 17:44:52 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
e213aa17bd lvmpolld.8.in: clarify the timeout parameter
Remove references to systemd native service. Now
the libdaemon supports shutdown on idle no matter
the init process implementation installed.
2015-05-12 17:16:31 +02:00
Ondrej Kozina
e587b0677b lvmpolld: Add standalone polldaemon.
See doc/lvmpolld_overview.txt
2015-05-09 00:59:18 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
87578b5d94 man: Fix recursive lvm-config man page. 2015-05-07 12:07:40 +01:00
David Teigland
6a171bbdf5 man: expanded explanation of lvmetad 2015-05-01 15:23:43 -05:00
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
8f25606d3a man: lvmconfig: also mention '--type list' in synopsis 2015-04-30 18:00:39 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
fc65269d68 lvmconfig: add supporting code for handling deprecated settings
This patch adds supporting code for handling deprecated settings.

Deprecated settings are not displayed by default in lvmconfig output
(except for --type current and --type diff). There's a new
"--showdeprecated" lvmconfig option to display them if needed.

Also, when using lvmconfig --withcomments, the comments with info
about deprecation are displayed for deprecated settings and with
lvmconfig --withversions, the version in which the setting was
deprecated is displayed in addition to the version of introduction.

If using --atversion with a version that is lower than the one
in which the setting was deprecated, the setting is then considered
as not deprecated (simply because at that version it was not
deprecated).

For example:

$ lvmconfig --type default activation
activation {
        ...
	raid_region_size=512
        ...
}

$ lvmconfig --type default activation --showdeprecated
activation {
        ...
	mirror_region_size=512
	raid_region_size=512
        ...
}

$ lvmconfig --type default activation --showdeprecated --withversions
activation {
        ...
	# Available since version 1.0.0.
	# Deprecated since version 2.2.99.
	mirror_region_size=512
	# Available since version 2.2.99.
	raid_region_size=512
        ...
}

$ lvmconfig --type default activation --showdeprecated --withcomments
activation {
        ...
	# Configuration option activation/mirror_region_size.
	# This has been replaced by the activation/raid_region_size
	# setting.
	# Size (in KB) of each copy operation when mirroring.
	# This configuration option is deprecated.
	mirror_region_size=512

	# Configuration option activation/raid_region_size.
	# Size in KiB of each raid or mirror synchronization region.
	# For raid or mirror segment types, this is the amount of
	# data that is copied at once when initializing, or moved
	# at once by pvmove.
	raid_region_size=512
        ...
}

$ lvmconfig --type default activation --withcomments --atversion 2.2.98
activation {
       ...
       # Configuration option activation/mirror_region_size.
       # Size (in KB) of each copy operation when mirroring.
       mirror_region_size=512
       ...
}
2015-04-30 17:55:04 +02:00
Petr Rockai
d6b6246864 man: Fix references to lvmcache(7) that mentioned section 8 by mistake. 2015-04-30 06:35:05 +02:00
David Teigland
299a3be0d3 man: lvmthin section about use-policies 2015-04-29 16:27:40 -05:00
David Teigland
bf73ccb848 man: 'lvmconfig' is preferred over 'lvm config' 2015-04-29 10:14:23 -05:00
David Teigland
f0ff3e9982 man: 'lvm config' is preferred over 'lvm lvmconfig' 2015-04-29 10:04:28 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
79ec8eb93c cleanup: lvmconfig man page typo 2015-04-29 16:35:49 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
8b6b90b073 config: consolidate CFG_UNSUPPORTED and CFG_ADVANCED settings
These settings are in the "unsupported" group:

devices/loopfiles
log/activate_file
metadata/disk_areas (section)
metadata/disk_areas/<disk_area> (section)
metadata/disk_areas/<disk_area>/size
metadata/disk_areas/<disk_area>/id

These settings are in the "advanced" group:

devices/dir
devices/scan
devices/types
global/proc
activation/missing_stripe_filler
activation/mlock_filter
metadata/pvmetadatacopies
metadata/pvmetadataignore
metadata/stripesize
metadata/dirs

Also, this patch causes the --ignoreunsupported and --ignoreadvanced
switches to be honoured for all config types (lvmconfig --type).

By default, the --type current and --type diff display unsupported
settings, the other types ignore them - this patch also introduces
--showunsupported switch for all these other types to display even
unsupported settings in their output if needed.
2015-04-29 16:31:47 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
3be3eb2995 lvmconfig: add --type list and -l|--list
lvmconfig --type list displays plain list of configuration settings.
Some of the existing decorations can be used (--withsummary and
--withversions) as well as existing options/switches (--ignoreadvanced,
--ignoreunsupported, --ignorelocal, --atversion).

For example (displaying only "config" section so the list is not long):

$lvmconfig --type list config
config/checks
config/abort_on_errors
config/profile_dir

$ lvmconfig --type list --withsummary config
config/checks - If enabled, any LVM configuration mismatch is reported.
config/abort_on_errors - Abort the LVM process if a configuration mismatch is found.
config/profile_dir - Directory where LVM looks for configuration profiles.

$ lvmconfig -l config
config/checks - If enabled, any LVM configuration mismatch is reported.
config/abort_on_errors - Abort the LVM process if a configuration mismatch is found.
config/profile_dir - Directory where LVM looks for configuration profiles.

$ lvmconfig --type list --withsummary --withversions config
config/checks - If enabled, any LVM configuration mismatch is reported. [2.2.99]
config/abort_on_errors - Abort the LVM process if a configuration mismatch is found. [2.2.99]
config/profile_dir - Directory where LVM looks for configuration profiles. [2.2.99]

Example with --atversion (displaying global section):

$ lvmconfig --type list global
global/umask
global/test
global/units
global/si_unit_consistency
global/suffix
global/activation
global/fallback_to_lvm1
global/format
global/format_libraries
global/segment_libraries
global/proc
global/etc
global/locking_type
global/wait_for_locks
global/fallback_to_clustered_locking
global/fallback_to_local_locking
global/locking_dir
global/prioritise_write_locks
global/library_dir
global/locking_library
global/abort_on_internal_errors
global/detect_internal_vg_cache_corruption
global/metadata_read_only
global/mirror_segtype_default
global/raid10_segtype_default
global/sparse_segtype_default
global/lvdisplay_shows_full_device_path
global/use_lvmetad
global/thin_check_executable
global/thin_dump_executable
global/thin_repair_executable
global/thin_check_options
global/thin_repair_options
global/thin_disabled_features
global/cache_check_executable
global/cache_dump_executable
global/cache_repair_executable
global/cache_check_options
global/cache_repair_options
global/system_id_source
global/system_id_file

$ lvmconfig --type list global --atversion 2.2.50
global/umask
global/test
global/units
global/suffix
global/activation
global/fallback_to_lvm1
global/format
global/format_libraries
global/segment_libraries
global/proc
global/locking_type
global/wait_for_locks
global/fallback_to_clustered_locking
global/fallback_to_local_locking
global/locking_dir
global/library_dir
global/locking_library
2015-04-29 11:58:14 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
0ba332e82a refactor: dumpconfig: keep --withcomments to display full comment and use --withsummary for one line summary 2015-04-29 11:14:18 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
3f0434057b config: Introduce lvmconfig.
'lvm dumpconfig' now does a lot more than just dumping configuration
information and is no longer only a support tool.  Users now need
to run it to find out about configuration information that has been
removed from the lvm.conf man page so we need to promote this to full
command line status as 'lvmconfig'.  Also accept 'lvm config' and mention
it in the usage information of lvmconf (which should also get merged in
eventually).
2015-04-28 17:00:37 +01:00
Petr Rockai
92607ecfe6 man: Escape single quotes in an example to avoid groff's unicode conversion. 2015-04-22 17:31:11 +02:00
David Teigland
47ed4cdc35 config: remove duplication of settings
The specific config settings have been removed
from the lvm.conf(5) man page, and replaced with
a description of how to use lvm dumpconfig to
view the settings.

The sample lvm.conf and lvmlocal.conf files are now generated:

example.conf.base  - initial ungenerated part of the file
example.conf.gen   - generated portion from dumpconfig
example.conf.in    - combination of .base and .gen files
example.conf       - result of configure processing .in file

lvmlocal.conf.base - initial ungenerated part of the file
lvmlocal.conf.gen  - generated portion from dumpconfig
lvmlocal.conf.in   - combination of .base and .gen files
lvmlocal.conf      - result of configure processing .in file

Do not edit the .in files, but edit config_settings.h
or the .base files, and then use 'make generate' to create
the new .in files.

- configure
  with options

- make
  creates tools/lvm

- make generate
  uses tools/lvm to create example.conf.in and lvmlocal.conf.in
  by combining .base files with dumpconfig output.

- configure
  with same options as above
  creates example.conf and lvmlocal.conf from .in files
2015-04-21 14:55:03 -05:00
David Teigland
9b86e8e8f4 dumpconfig: add --ignorelocal
When generating a sample lvm.conf file, we don't want to
include the "local" section, which is kept in lvmlocal.conf.
2015-04-21 14:55:03 -05:00
David Teigland
5f6ac1c812 dumpconfig: add --withfullcomments option
--withfullcomments prints all comment lines for each config option.
--withcomments prints only the first comment line, which should be
a short one-line summary of the option.
2015-04-15 10:56:42 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
22defdac64 man: fix some formatting and also mention -vv 2015-04-15 09:19:11 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
375ed98ae9 make: move blkdeactivate script and blkdeactivate.8 man page installation from install_lvm2 to install_device-mapper target
This completes commit 7a4e27eee5.
2015-04-14 15:24:37 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
d5651f44e3 man: lvmconf: more notes on --services option 2015-04-14 09:49:56 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
f814d763c6 lvmconf: add --enable-halvm, --disable-halvm, --services, --mirrorservice, --startstopservices options and use proper global/use_lvmetad default value
This patch adds new options to lvmconf:

  --enable-halvm (just like --enable-cluster, but configure LVM
                  for use in HA LVM - meaning disabling lvmetad and
                  making sure we have locking_type=1)

  --disable-halvm (just like --disable-cluster, but configure LVM
                   back from HA LVM - meaning enabling lvmetad if
                   it's enabled by default and making sure we have
                   default locking type set)

  --services (causes clvmd and lvmetad services to be enabled or
              disabled appropriately and conforming to the changes
              in lvm configuration we've just made with lvmconf)

  --mirrorservice (in addition to clvmd and lvmetad services, also
                   enable or disable cmirrord service appropriately;
                   this is a separate option because cmirrord is
                   optional and it doesn't need to be always enabled
                   when clvmd is enabled)

  --startstopservices (in addition to enabling or disabling services,
                       start and stop these services immediately)

These options are supposed to help users to make their system ready
for cluster with clvmd (active-active) or HA LVM (active-passive) use
while lvmconf script can handle services as well so users don't need
to bother about setting them manually.

Also, before this patch, we hardcoded global/use_lvmetad=0 as default
value in lvmconf script. Howeverm this default may change by just
flipping the value in config_settings.h and we may forget to edit
the lvmconf. It's better to use lvm dumpconfig --type default global/use_lvmetad
to get the actual default value and use this one instead of hardcoded one.
2015-04-13 15:27:17 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
f32973c78e select: mention { } use in lvm.8 man page and '-S help' properly 2015-04-08 11:14:16 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a10a11bd54 lvchange: disable persistent minors for pools
There is no reason to support persistent major/minor numbers
for pool volumes - it's only meant to be supported for filesystems
(since i.e. nfs may need to keep volume on a persistent device node.)

Support for pools is now explicitely disabled and documented.
2015-03-18 13:42:13 +01:00
David Teigland
b48ff3b94e man: add info to lvmsystemid
about losing access to a VG if lvm is downgraded
to an earlier version.
2015-03-05 12:12:42 -06:00
David Teigland
1e65fdd9ba system_id: make new VGs read-only for old lvm versions
Previous versions of lvm will not obey the restrictions
imposed by the new system_id, and would allow such a VG
to be written.  So, a VG with a new system_id is further
changed to force previous lvm versions to treat it as
read-only.  This is done by removing the WRITE flag from
the metadata status line of these VGs, and putting a new
WRITE_LOCKED flag in the flags line of the metadata.

Versions of lvm that recognize WRITE_LOCKED, also obey the
new system_id.  For these lvm versions, WRITE_LOCKED is
identical to WRITE, and the rules associated with matching
system_id's are imposed.

A new VG lock_type field is also added that causes the same
WRITE/WRITE_LOCKED transformation when set.  A previous
version of lvm will also see a VG with lock_type as read-only.

Versions of lvm that recognize WRITE_LOCKED, must also obey
the lock_type setting.  Until the lock_type feature is added,
lvm will fail to read any VG with lock_type set and report an
error about an unsupported lock_type.  Once the lock_type
feature is added, lvm will allow VGs with lock_type to be
used according to the rules imposed by the lock_type.

When both system_id and lock_type settings are removed, a VG
is written with the old WRITE status flag, and without the
new WRITE_LOCKED flag.  This allows old versions of lvm to
use the VG as before.
2015-03-05 09:50:43 -06:00
David Teigland
c32efc7f7e system_id: apply consistent naming
In log messages refer to it as system ID (not System ID).

Do not put quotes around the system_id string when printing.

On the command line use systemid.

In code, metadata, and config files use system_id.

In lvmsystemid refer to the concept/entity as system_id.
2015-02-27 13:32:00 -06:00
David Teigland
71d97fd88a man: lvmsystemid: empty string equals no system_id 2015-02-25 16:55:56 -06:00
David Teigland
2c50cbe8cb tests: fix the system_id tests
That were broken by yesterday's system_id changes.
2015-02-25 14:58:49 -06:00
Petr Rockai
a88430c6a1 lvcreate.8: Mention --cachepolicy and --cachesettings. 2015-02-25 18:34:01 +01:00
Petr Rockai
0d313282f2 lvmcache.7: add a section on --cachepolicy/--cachesettings 2015-02-25 18:21:30 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
2fc2928978 config: Rename allow_system_id to extra_system_ids.
Add warnings to the config file templates and briefly document
each value.
Configure lvmlocal.conf and install in /etc/lvm.
2015-02-23 22:19:08 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
36a6c0df46 systemid: Add built-in systemid command.
Make it easy to find the system ID when testing.
Also show in general debug output.
2015-02-23 17:26:50 +00:00
David Teigland
42ba7974c5 man lvmsystemid: update changing the system_id 2015-02-20 16:55:27 -06:00
David Teigland
cfd1b8eae2 man lvm: document --foreign option 2015-02-20 16:26:04 -06:00
David Teigland
3361e662f4 man: systemid option for vgcreate and vgchange 2015-02-20 14:58:01 -06:00
David Teigland
e0946dca69 man lvmsystemid: expanded limitations and warnings 2015-02-20 12:21:23 -06:00
David Teigland
97e3e84c2c man: update lvmthin about repair and recovery
Explain the thin metadata repair might not work.
Clarify that a full thin pool won't require fsck for journaled fs.
2015-02-19 10:49:39 -06:00
David Teigland
8cdec4c434 system_id: use for VG ownership
See included lvmsystemid(7) for full description.
2015-02-13 10:10:27 -06:00
Peter Rajnoha
437b17964c man: reference -S/--select in {vg,lv,pv}change, {vg,lv}remove, {vg,lv,pv}display and vg{import,export} man pages 2015-02-11 10:04:21 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
3505e88b18 man: dumpconfig: mention LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE env var and add more references to --mergedconfig option
The LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE env var is new - mention it in dumpconfig's
man page.

Also, dumpconfig always displays the top of the config cascade.
To display all the config found in the cascade merged (just like
it's used during LVM command processing), --mergedconfig option
must be used - this one's already described in that man page,
just make sure it's clear and add reference for this option also
in --profile/--commandprofile/--metadataprofile description.
2015-02-11 09:34:19 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
b6f558adcc lvm: recognize LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE env var for default command profile to use in LVM commands
Once LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE environment variable is specified, the profile
referenced is used just like it was specified using "<lvm command> --commandprofile".
If both --commandprofile cmd line option and LVM_COMMAND_PROFILE env
var is used, the --commandprofile cmd line option gets preference.
2015-02-09 14:16:30 +01:00
David Teigland
4b099d06b1 lvmthin: update monitor and autoextend
and some more in data exhaustion
2015-01-22 12:53:25 -06:00
David Teigland
e0dc3d5efb lvmthin: update data space exhaustion 2015-01-21 14:31:36 -06:00
Peter Rajnoha
338d98be97 cleanup: for commit 7bcb3fb02d 2015-01-21 11:29:12 +01:00
David Teigland
5e8f362c9e lvmthin: include errorwhenfull
and don't display the size of pmspare to avoid setting an
expectation of a specific size.
2015-01-20 13:28:34 -06:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3cef00c4ca man: errorwhenfull doc 2015-01-20 15:02:19 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
e5ffacc434 man: Remove renamed writebehind field from lvs.8. 2015-01-17 11:05:25 +00:00
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
Peter Rajnoha
2e905d4540 man: put back the --binary reference in {pv,vg,lv}display man page 2014-12-11 15:50:37 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
3ec482a379 man: remove reference to --binary in {pv,vg,lv}display man page
The {pv,vg,lv}display commands don't use reporting capabilites and
as such they can't use --binary. This got into the man pages by
mistake - the display commands do not recognize --binary option.
2014-12-11 10:42:31 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
2cd98b2782 makefiles: avoid regeneration of Makefile
When Makefile.in is touched, it's been matched by 'man' rule
and it's been wrongly regnerated.

Put in explicit rules to avoid Makefile sed processing.
2014-11-26 09:36:12 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
e50c9bd7cd cache: comment out unsupported pooldatasize
Support for pooldatasize is not yet finished, so keep it commented out
for now.
2014-11-24 17:38:39 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d184e8d0ba man: update
Improve lvconvert.
Put ENV section downward in lvm.8.
2014-11-24 14:48:13 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
a058fab118 man: fix pages for generators
Properly generate man page for systemd generators on make.
Simplified  install_clusters
2014-11-24 14:39:04 +01:00
Petr Rockai
ced0c17f21 man/lvchange: Mention --cachepolicy and --cachesettings. 2014-11-24 00:02:55 +01:00
Petr Rockai
1445a74d76 man/lvm.conf: Update to reflect changes in config parser. 2014-11-23 23:41:58 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
422d1ac8d2 man: clvmd updates
- closer to the recommendation of man-pages (7) if possible
- Add crossrefs
- Sort options and crossrefs
- Fix default timeout (60 secs) of -t
- Documents -I[auto]

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2014-11-19 01:09:52 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
5226181329 man: clvmd help output
Closer to the recommendation of groff_man (7) if possible

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2014-11-19 01:09:52 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
10330b8782 man: blkdeactivate help output
- Closer to the recommendation of man-pages and groff_man (7) if
  possible
- Sort options and crossrefs
- Relocate sub-options on the right places

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2014-11-19 01:09:24 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
731e99025b man: lvchange update
Fix \fI usage.
2014-11-19 00:31:23 +01:00
David Teigland
01bbbc27bf lvmcache: remove unnecessary line break syntax 2014-11-13 11:07:34 -06:00
David Teigland
474c6a5271 lvmcache.7: remove unwanted line continuation syntax 2014-11-13 11:04:15 -06:00
Stéphane Aulery
271252eff7 lvconvert.8: fix bold and italic syntax mistake
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2014-11-13 17:49:42 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery
112302d41a man: fix (\+) syntax warning of Groff
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
2014-11-12 09:39:19 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
c5c2665a21 man: _corig is reserved 2014-11-10 22:05:49 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
651613e9a4 man: update lvcreate with sparse
Document sparse device creation and its default segtype selection.
2014-10-30 23:58:48 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
29c14a1194 man: lvconvert/create updates
More description for cache support.
Introduce --pooldatasize option.
2014-10-24 16:39:32 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
5e6e2d6b1b vgcreate: Permit non-power-of-2 extent sizes.
Relax validation to permit extent sizes > 128KB that are not powers of 2
with lvm2 format.  Existing code was already capable of handling this.
2014-10-14 18:12:15 +01:00
David Teigland
31f10a0554 man: lvmcache mention automatic pool conversion
When converting an origin to a cache lv, lvm will automatically convert
the specified cache pool into a cache pool if it is not already a cache
pool.
2014-10-06 16:22:54 -05:00
David Teigland
b7c81769e7 man: lvmcache changes related to removal and splitting 2014-10-06 14:04:09 -05:00
David Teigland
902192abdc man: lvmthin show the lvcreate -n option for pools
lvcreate of thin pools can now use '-n lv vg' like other lv types,
or it can name the new thin pool in the free arg as 'vg/lv', which
is not allowed with other lv types.
2014-10-06 13:29:18 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
7783fe3e93 man: document -ff for removal
Make it visible in man page that -ff could make removal
process proceed in case of damaged pool.
2014-10-06 15:22:24 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
fbf14b12d8 man: lvconvert new split options
Update man page with info how to split/uncache cached logical
volumes.

lvconvert: splitsnapshot support --yes

Allow to use --yes to skip prompt.
2014-10-06 15:22:24 +02:00
David Teigland
91198ac13e man: lvmcache better cache mode info and other command variations 2014-10-02 12:01:58 -05:00
David Teigland
17ab39f743 cache: include cache mode in vg metadata and display
The cache mode of a new cache pool is always explicitly
included in the vg metadata.  If a cache mode is not
specified on the command line, the cache mode is taken
from lvm.conf allocation/cache_pool_cachemode, which
defaults to "writethrough".

The cache mode can be displayed with lvs -o+cachemode.
2014-10-02 11:17:41 -05:00
David Teigland
d66f257452 man: lvmthin mention alternate syntax
Users will probably run across the alternate syntax,
so we should explain how it relates to what is used here.
2014-10-01 10:44:18 -05:00
David Teigland
33b96bef5b Revert "Revert "man: lvmcache should use clearer cache pool options""
This reverts commit f120c954fc.
2014-10-01 10:43:53 -05:00
David Teigland
9f3c11b39a man: lvmthin remove unnecessary fixme
The existing method for single step thin-pool + thin creation
makes sense.
2014-09-29 12:28:00 -05:00
David Teigland
9646c3359f Revert "Revert "man: lvmthin should use clearer thin pool options""
This reverts commit 17a1869df5.

We've agreed on the clearer syntax.
2014-09-29 12:26:16 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f120c954fc Revert "man: lvmcache should use clearer cache pool options"
Revert: --cachepool  and --thipnpool is the right way

they both take arg

This is a major difference from  --cache   and --thin
2014-09-27 15:10:44 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
17a1869df5 Revert "man: lvmthin should use clearer thin pool options"
Revert: --cachepool  and --thipnpool is the right way

they both take arg

This is a major difference from  --cache   and --thin
2014-09-27 15:08:31 +02:00
David Teigland
95df06d721 man: lvmthin should use clearer thin pool options
Previously, this was the recommended form for creating a thin pool:

lvconvert --thinpool VG/ThinDataLV --poolmetadata VG/ThinMetaLV

but this is confusing, because --thinpool does not actually take
an arg, and is more naturally used to specify an existing thin pool.

The new recommended form is:

lvconvert --type thin-pool --poolmetadata VG/ThinMetaLV VG/ThinDataLV
2014-09-26 16:05:30 -05:00
David Teigland
b53504ed37 man: lvmcache should use clearer cache pool options
Previously, this was the recommended form for creating a cache pool:

lvconvert --cachepool VG/CacheDataLV --poolmetadata VG/CacheMetaLV

but this is confusing, because --cachepool does not actually take
an arg, and is more natually used to specify an existing cache pool.

The new recommended form is:

lvconvert --type cache-pool --poolmetadata VG/CacheMetaLV VG/CacheDataLV
2014-09-26 14:40:40 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
081e406d0d man: document obsoleted options
It's shown on comand line help and it's accepted argument,
so provide matching man entry.
2014-09-19 15:55:47 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
8b8d21f873 pre-release 2014-08-26 16:34:14 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
7e208d6504 man: dmsetup: -n is shortcut for --notable, not --noheadings
The -n was defined for --notable since beginning, but the man page
got wrong at some time...
2014-08-21 10:26:16 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
42e07d2bce dmsetup: Support remove --deferred.
This patch adds a new flag --deferred to dmsetup remove. If this flag is
specified and the device is open, it is scheduled to be deleted on
close.

struct dm_info is extended.

The existing dm_task_get_info() is converted into a wrapper around the
new version dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove() so existing binaries
can still use the old smaller structure.

Recompiled code will pick up the new larger structure.

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
2014-08-16 00:34:48 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
d213758e57 man: missing (C)ache in target type lv_attr description 2014-08-15 15:21:15 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f183995f8e cleanup: just easier word wrapping 2014-08-15 15:06:44 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
ba7796e055 man: add some more reserved names 2014-08-15 15:06:44 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
630fcab420 man: show lv name for lvs
Make it more obvious that either just vg name or lv name or path could
be passed as an argument.
2014-08-15 15:06:44 +02:00
Petr Rockai
ab1887fe47 man: Update the lvscan manpage with a section on --cache. 2014-07-22 22:48:41 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b51f1b3df6 man: lvconvert poolmetadataspare
Add missing description for --poolmetadataspare option.
2014-07-22 22:41:41 +02:00
David Teigland
864ff3cb18 man: rework lvmcache to match lvmthin
Reorganize and rewrite parts to match lvmthin(7).
2014-07-22 15:12:02 -05:00
David Teigland
fe5b282a4a man: lvmcache updates
- use the lvconvert --cachepool syntax to match the lvmthin style
- rewrite removal information
- very minor formatting adjustments
2014-07-21 15:41:42 -05:00
David Teigland
1fe487043d man: use macros for indenting in lvmthin 2014-07-21 10:28:20 -05:00
David Teigland
3e4f24115a man: lvmthin fix line breaks
The html rendering inserted some unpleasant line breaks,
so insert better breaks explicitly.
2014-07-11 15:15:03 -05:00
Zdenek Kabelac
c0ebe78ef8 lvconvert: fix mirror path
lvconvert rewrite commit missed proper handling
of mirror path for --corelog and --mirrorlog options.
Document this even in man page.
2014-07-11 14:12:35 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4bbfac359c man: lvconvert update
Update lvconvert doc for conversion of pools
(thin and cache pools and volumes)

Various more cleanups.
2014-07-11 13:32:23 +02:00
Jonathan Brassow
be75076dfc activation: Add "degraded" activation mode
Currently, we have two modes of activation, an unnamed nominal mode
(which I will refer to as "complete") and "partial" mode.  The
"complete" mode requires that a volume group be 'complete' - that
is, no missing PVs.  If there are any missing PVs, no affected LVs
are allowed to activate - even RAID LVs which might be able to
tolerate a failure.  The "partial" mode allows anything to be
activated (or at least attempted).  If a non-redundant LV is
missing a portion of its addressable space due to a device failure,
it will be replaced with an error target.  RAID LVs will either
activate or fail to activate depending on how badly their
redundancy is compromised.

This patch adds a third option, "degraded" mode.  This mode can
be selected via the '--activationmode {complete|degraded|partial}'
option to lvchange/vgchange.  It can also be set in lvm.conf.
The "degraded" activation mode allows RAID LVs with a sufficient
level of redundancy to activate (e.g. a RAID5 LV with one device
failure, a RAID6 with two device failures, or RAID1 with n-1
failures).  RAID LVs with too many device failures are not allowed
to activate - nor are any non-redundant LVs that may have been
affected.  This patch also makes the "degraded" mode the default
activation mode.

The degraded activation mode does not yet work in a cluster.  A
new cluster lock flag (LCK_DEGRADED_MODE) will need to be created
to make that work.  Currently, there is limited space for this
extra flag and I am looking for possible solutions.  One possible
solution is to usurp LCK_CONVERT, as it is not used.  When the
locking_type is 3, the degraded mode flag simply gets dropped and
the old ("complete") behavior is exhibited.
2014-07-09 22:56:11 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
da545ce3b4 tools: add --binary arg to pvs,vgs,lvs and {pv,vg,lv}display -C and report/binary_values_as_numeric lvm.conf option
The --binary option, if used, causes all the binary values reported
in reporting commands to be displayed as "0" or "1" instead of descriptive
literal values (value "unknown" is still used for values that could not be
determined).

Also, add report/binary_values_as_numeric lvm.conf option with the same
functionality as the --binary option (the --binary option prevails
if both --binary cmd option and report/binary_values_as_numeric lvm.conf
option is used at the same time). The report/binary_values_as_numeric is
also profilable.

This makes it easier to use and check lvm reporting command output in scripts.
2014-07-04 15:40:17 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
eadcea2dae thin: repaired LV uses _meta%d
Don't leave 'regular' LV with reserved suffix for a user.
After succefull repair use 'normal' (non-reserved) LV name
for backup of original metadata.
2014-06-30 12:15:13 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
b41aa985d7 man: do not mention '(i)nherited' for alloc policy in vg_attr field
VG has nothing to inherit from...
2014-06-26 15:15:10 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
867b92b031 man: More /dev/vg and /dev/mapper documentation. 2014-06-23 14:01:31 +01:00
David Teigland
e96a4856e6 man: lvmthin
Clean up inconsistencies in the last change.
Improve some bad formatting.
2014-06-18 14:30:57 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
fc6e2a703b man: add man page entry for dmsetup info -c -S/--select + minor cleanups 2014-06-18 13:48:27 +02:00
Jonathan Brassow
5ebff6cc9f pvmove: Enable all-or-nothing (atomic) pvmoves
pvmove can be used to move single LVs by name or multiple LVs that
lie within the specified PV range (e.g. /dev/sdb1:0-1000).  When
moving more than one LV, the portions of those LVs that are in the
range to be moved are added to a new temporary pvmove LV.  The LVs
then point to the range in the pvmove LV, rather than the PV
range.

Example 1:
	We have two LVs in this example.  After they were
	created, the first LV was grown, yeilding two segments
	in LV1.  So, there are two LVs with a total of three
	segments.

	Before pvmove:
	      ---------  ---------   ---------
	      | LV1s0 |  | LV2s0 |   | LV1s1 |
	      ---------  ---------   ---------
	         |           |           |
	   -------------------------------------
	PV | 000 - 255 | 256 - 511 | 512 - 767 |
	   -------------------------------------

	After pvmove inserts the temporary pvmove LV:
	          ---------   ---------   ---------
	          | LV1s0 |   | LV2s0 |   | LV1s1 |
	          ---------   ---------   ---------
	              |           |           |
	        -------------------------------------
	pvmove0 |   seg 0   |   seg 1   |   seg 2   |
	        -------------------------------------
	              |           |           |
	        -------------------------------------
	PV      | 000 - 255 | 256 - 511 | 512 - 767 |
	        -------------------------------------

	Each of the affected LV segments now point to a
	range of blocks in the pvmove LV, which purposefully
	corresponds to the segments moved from the original
	LVs into the temporary pvmove LV.

The current implementation goes on from here to mirror the temporary
pvmove LV by segment.  Further, as the pvmove LV is activated, only
one of its segments is actually mirrored (i.e. "moving") at a time.
The rest are either complete or not addressed yet.  If the pvmove
is aborted, those segments that are completed will remain on the
destination and those that are not yet addressed or in the process
of moving will stay on the source PV.  Thus, it is possible to have
a partially completed move - some LVs (or certain segments of LVs)
on the source PV and some on the destination.

Example 2:
	What 'example 1' might look if it was half-way
	through the move.
	             ---------   ---------   ---------
	             | LV1s0 |   | LV2s0 |   | LV1s1 |
	             ---------   ---------   ---------
	                 |           |           |
	           -------------------------------------
	pvmove0    |   seg 0   |   seg 1   |   seg 2   |
	           -------------------------------------
	                 |           |           |
	                 |     -------------------------
	source PV        |     | 256 - 511 | 512 - 767 |
	                 |     -------------------------
	                 |           ||
	           -------------------------
	dest PV    | 000 - 255 | 256 - 511 |
	           -------------------------

This update allows the user to specify that they would like the
pvmove mirror created "by LV" rather than "by segment".  That is,
the pvmove LV becomes an image in an encapsulating mirror along
with the allocated copy image.

Example 3:
	A pvmove that is performed "by LV" rather than "by segment".

	                   ---------   ---------
	                   | LV1s0 |   | LV2s0 |
	                   ---------   ---------
	                       |           |
	                 -------------------------
	        pvmove0  |  * LV-level mirror *  |
	                 -------------------------
                             /                \
	   pvmove_mimage0   /          pvmove_mimage1
	   -------------------------   -------------------------
	   |   seg 0   |   seg 1   |   |   seg 0   |   seg 1   |
	   -------------------------   -------------------------
	        |            |               |           |
	   -------------------------   -------------------------
	   | 000 - 255 | 256 - 511 |   | 000 - 255 | 256 - 511 |
	   -------------------------   -------------------------
	           source PV                    dest PV

The thing that differentiates a pvmove done in this way and a simple
"up-convert" from linear to mirror is the preservation of the
distinct segments.  A normal up-convert would simply allocate the
necessary space with no regard for segment boundaries.  The pvmove
operation must preserve the segments because they are the critical
boundary between the segments of the LVs being moved.  So, when the
pvmove copy image is allocated, all corresponding segments must be
allocated.  The code that merges ajoining segments that are part of
the same LV when the metadata is written must also be avoided in
this case.  This method of mirroring is unique enough to warrant its
own definitional macro, MIRROR_BY_SEGMENTED_LV.  This joins the two
existing macros: MIRROR_BY_SEG (for original pvmove) and MIRROR_BY_LV
(for user created mirrors).

The advantages of performing pvmove in this way is that all of the
LVs affected can be moved together.  It is an all-or-nothing approach
that leaves all LV segments on the source PV if the move is aborted.
Additionally, a mirror log can be used (in the future) to provide tracking
of progress; allowing the copy to continue where it left off in the event
there is a deactivation.
2014-06-17 22:59:36 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
94316dfe9d report: select: add man pages for report selection feature 2014-06-17 16:27:21 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
494db11004 snapshot: %ORIGIN is relative to data size
Let's use the size of origin as the real base for percenta calculation,
and 'silenly' add needed metadata space for snapshot.

So now command   'lvcreate -s -l100%ORIGIN vg/lv' should always create a
snapshot to handle full device overwrite.
2014-06-17 13:41:01 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
cd6d6fc24e snapshot: report proper error message
Expresing -lXX%LV is not valid for snapshot, but error message for
snapshost case was not complete and missed %ORIGIN.
Also document correct settings for in manpage properly where
it missed %PVS.
2014-06-17 13:36:33 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f845afe7cf man: dmsetup manglename
More updates to manglename option.
Add reference to LVM2 resource page, since for a long time,
this is the right places for sources for libdevmapper....
2014-06-11 11:11:10 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4db71422a2 man: kiB uppercase 2014-06-11 11:10:56 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d13efac51b man: update lvmthin
Improve graphics form of page and use shorter correct and suggested
forms of thin pool manipulation commands.
2014-06-11 11:10:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
e156837636 man: more compliant 2014-06-11 11:10:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
0896987633 man: properly escape -
Dash should be using '\' to be typographically correct.
2014-06-11 11:10:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
4956091027 man: use bullets 2014-06-11 11:10:55 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
d2b60c6e35 man: advertise lvmcache, lvmthin
Add references to new man pages so they get known.
2014-06-11 11:10:54 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
93c2614e56 man: document DM_DEFAULT_NAME_MANGLING_MODE
Document DM_DEFAULT_NAME_MANGLING_MODE environmental variable.
(its default setting is build time configurable)
2014-06-05 17:47:21 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
965592340d man: cleanup dmsetup
Add few bold texts.
2014-05-26 22:57:20 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
3cb2658fb7 dmsetup: add warning
Warn when --udevcookie/DM_UDEV_COOKIE is used with 'dmsetup remove --force'.

When command is doing multiple ioctl operations on a single device,
it may invoke udev activity, that is colliding with further ioctl commands.
The result of such operation becomes unpredictable.
Use of --retry could partially help...
2014-05-26 22:56:30 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
496953fb39 cleanup: use y/n instead of y|n
Use same for of yes no query everywhere.
2014-05-22 12:01:43 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
092659644a man: missing space between option name and value name 2014-05-21 15:51:28 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
e78092fa3a man: more man page updates for --commandprofile and --metadataprofile split 2014-05-21 14:53:56 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
b7431f69ed man: update lvm.conf man page for latest changes 2014-05-21 13:25:09 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
97c91b020e man: update dumpconfig man page for latest changes 2014-05-21 11:01:19 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
1ddc68ccd7 man: call installers only when there are set vars.
When MAN7, MAN8CLUSTER or MAN8SYSTEMD_GENERATORS would be empty,
don't call respective INSTALL tools.
On older systems they even generate error causing abort
of makefile target.
2014-05-21 10:52:33 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
65b3fe9b05 man: cleanup style 2014-05-20 21:50:28 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
477351fc4d man: lvmcache
separate man page for lvm cache
2014-05-18 20:09:47 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
b73a786755 man: lvmcache
Migrate cache description into  man(7) entry
(like lvmthin).
2014-05-15 12:13:24 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
11bedf1baf display: print skipped prompt
Since decisions in the silent mode may not be always obvious,
print skipped prompt with answer 'n'.

Also document  '-qq' behaviour (single -q only shuts
logging, while -qq sets silent mode).
2014-05-15 12:11:35 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
309201a53b man:misc updates 2014-05-15 12:08:35 +02:00
David Teigland
42d7409da2 man: lvmthin cover snapshot merge and xfs
also fix a couple inconsistent example values.
2014-05-14 15:15:35 -05:00
David Teigland
044b796800 man: more lvmthin discard references
and some fixes from Tom.
2014-05-14 15:15:35 -05:00
Alasdair G Kergon
422b3b0fb5 man: Fix man7 dir dependency.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/510202
2014-05-13 11:18:13 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
2b09def606 man: minor fixes in lvmetad man page
- better add reference to lvm dumpconfig --type default
   than stating that lvmetad is not enabled by default
 - substitute #DEFAULT_PID_DIR# with concrete value
2014-04-23 14:34:42 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon
b5f8f452ac tools: Add --readonly support.
Offer lock-free access to display virtual machine or clustered VG metadata
while it might be in use.
2014-04-18 02:46:34 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
177ece01a9 reports: Use X for unknown LV attr when no dm.
It's safer not to tell people an LV is inactive when we aren't sure.
2014-04-18 02:23:39 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
a6763c64a7 lvmdump: add -s to gather system info and context (currently systemd-related only)
This is sort of info we always ask people to retrieve when
inspecting problems in systemd environment so let's have this
as part of lvmdump directly.

The -s option does not need to be bound to systemd only. We could
add support for initscripts or any other system-wide/service tracking
info that can help us with debugging problems.
2014-04-15 15:27:30 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
db4cf30106 man: cleanup new params
Correcting cachemode args
2014-04-08 11:00:14 +02:00
David Teigland
2fd5c67f32 man: lvmthin clean up lvm.conf references 2014-04-04 09:51:56 -05:00
Alasdair G Kergon
6d2a26f6b6 man: Add lvmthin(7). 2014-04-04 01:14:25 +01:00
David Teigland
f242c0611d man: lvmthin pool space exhaustion
Initial description and instructions for
data/metadata space exhaustion.
2014-04-03 16:20:15 -05:00
David Teigland
7b11b1b4b5 man: add lvmthin man page 2014-04-01 16:04:08 -05:00
Peter Rajnoha
13009adbf2 man: add a note about --profile when using dumpconfig --mergedconfig 2014-04-01 11:19:38 +02:00
Zdenek Kabelac
31d68b7124 man: sort options
Sort order for -C|--columns as with other options,
and use short capital name as the first (as with other options).
Also drop multiple reference for pvs/lvs/vgs, since now
the text for -C is really close to referrence of lvm anyway.
2014-03-30 23:43:31 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
6d314466f3 man: better formatting for lvm dumpconfig man page 2014-03-27 14:18:41 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
801d43445d man: add man page for lvm dumpconfig 2014-03-27 14:03:28 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
dae455f806 man: colorization fixes
Fix style
2014-03-26 14:11:37 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
bda0fe95ad man: add repair info for thin pools
Document lvconvert --repair for thin pools.
2014-03-26 14:11:36 +01:00
Thomas Fehr
5b69bfb6f8 pvdisplay: fix man to refer to sectors, not KB
The PV size is displayed in sectors, not kilobytes
for 'pvdisplay -c'

Signed-off-by: Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
2014-03-19 00:49:32 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
64086c3bd8 doc: cleanup/extend some man pages/conf comments
man/lvm2-activation-generator.8:
  Generator Specification -> Generators Specification
  (this is the exact word in the systemd man page)

conf/example.conf.in:
  cleanup recent edits related to report section

man/lvm.conf.5:
  add a line about a possibility to generate a new
  profile with lvm dumpconfig command as an alternative
  to copying the default profile
2014-03-18 08:28:58 +01:00
Marian Csontos
a31ab7c171 man: Fix man page containing BUILDROOT
This breaks brew/koji as DESTDIR should not be contained in any file and
results in message like:

    + /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
    /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/lvm2-2.02.106-0.311.el7.x86_64/usr/share/man/man8/lvm2-activation-generator.8:.B /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/lvm2-2.02.106-0.311.el7.x86_64/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/lvm2-activation-generator
    Found '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/lvm2-2.02.106-0.311.el7.x86_64' in installed files; aborting
    error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.UfX2SX (%install)
2014-03-14 00:36:19 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
2189d66a27 man: install lvm2-activation-generator man page only on make install_systemd_generators 2014-03-13 13:20:28 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
031666ef66 man: add man page for lvm2-activation-generator 2014-03-13 13:01:06 +01:00
Zhiqing Zhang
014ba37cb1 lvresize: fix stripe size validation
While stripe size is twice the physical extent size,
the original code will not reduce stripe size to maximum
(physical extent size).

Signed-off-by: Zhiqing Zhang <zhangzq.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-02-26 13:25:50 +01:00
Jonathan Brassow
3bb9eda97c man: Enhancements to various man pages for cache[-pool] segtypes
Better formatting.  More consistent naming.  Better clarity.
2014-02-25 12:17:03 -06:00
Alasdair G Kergon
b359b86f88 allocation: improve approx alloc with resize
Start to convert percentage size handling in lvresize to the new
standard.  Note in the man pages that this code is incomplete.
Fix a regression in non-percentage allocation in my last check in.

This is what I am aiming for:

-l<extents>
-l<percent> LV/ORIGIN
	sets or changes the LV size based on the specified quantity
	of logical logical extents (that might be backed by
	a higher number of physical extents)

-l<percent> PVS/VG/FREE
	sets or changes the LV size so as to allocate or free the
	desired quantity of physical extents (that might amount to a
	lower number of logical extents for the LV concerned)

-l+50%FREE - Use up half the remaining free space in the VG when
	carrying out this operation.

-l50%VG - After this operation, this LV should be using up half the
	space in the VG.

-l200%LV - Double the logical size of this LV.

-l+100%LV - Double the logical size of this LV.

-l-50%LV - Reduce the logical size of this LV by half.
2014-02-24 22:48:23 +00:00
Jonathan Brassow
00ce01e52d cache-pool: Change segtype name from cache_pool to cache-pool
Thin pools use "thin-pool" for the segment type name.  To be consistent,
we use "cache-pool" instead of "cache_pool".
2014-02-19 09:26:03 -06:00
Jonathan Brassow
6a00a7e33d RAID: Allow implicit stripe (and parity) when creating RAID LVs
There are typically 2 functions for the more advanced segment types that
deal with parameters in lvcreate.c: _get_*_params() and _check_*_params().
(Not all segment types name their functions according to this scheme.)
The former function is responsible for reading parameters before the VG
has been read.  The latter is for sanity checking and possibly setting
parameters after the VG has been read.

This patch adds a _check_raid_parameters() function that will determine
if the user has specified 'stripe' or 'mirror' parameters.  If not, the
proper number is computed from the list of PVs the user has supplied or
the number that are available in the VG.  Now that _check_raid_parameters()
is available, we move the check for proper number of stripes from
_get_* to _check_*.

This gives the user the ability to create RAID LVs as follows:
# 5-device RAID5, 4-data, 1-parity (i.e. implicit '-i 4')
~> lvcreate --type raid5 -L 100G -n lv vg /dev/sd[abcde]1

# 5-device RAID6, 3-data, 2-parity (i.e. implicit '-i 3')
~> lvcreate --type raid6 -L 100G -n lv vg /dev/sd[abcde]1

# If 5 PVs in VG, 4-data, 1-parity RAID5
~> lvcreate --type raid5 -L 100G -n lv vg

Considerations:
This patch only affects RAID.  It might also be useful to apply this to
the 'stripe' segment type.  LVM RAID may include RAID0 at some point in
the future and the implicit stripes would apply there.  It would be odd
to have RAID0 be able to auto-determine the stripe count while 'stripe'
could not.

The only draw-back of this patch that I can see is that there might be
less error checking.  Rather than informing the user that they forgot
to supply an argument (e.g. '-i'), the value would be computed and it
may differ from what the user actually wanted.  I don't see this as a
problem, because the user can check the device count after creation
and remove the LV if they have made an error.
2014-02-17 20:18:23 -06:00
Jonathan Brassow
f4658b53d7 man: Add example/explanation section for cache LVs to lvm.8
I've added an "Advanced Logical Volume Types" section that I hope
to contain information on the logical volume types that may use
multiple steps and multiple commands to create.  Cache is the
first entry into this section.  I'd like to see thin and RAID in
here in the future.
2014-02-13 11:53:31 -06:00
Jonathan Brassow
907641cd3d cache: Update man page to reflect need for dm-cache 1.3.0
Update the man page so the user knows that dm-cache 1.3.0 module
is needed.  Also, enforce that in the code and print a warning if
the module is not new enough.
2014-02-13 09:13:57 -06:00
Jonathan Brassow
5bfe4aaf95 cache[pool]: Man page updates for lvs, lvcreate, lvconvert 2014-02-12 10:29:07 -06:00
Zdenek Kabelac
40a9c443a9 man: use some existing indentifier
Avoid confusing user, since some may get impression there is
such variable (max_archives) in the config file.
Pick rather something existing.
2014-02-11 18:55:54 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
1a5062c9a7 cleanup: clarify man pages about lvchange/vgchange -aay, use -aay in lvm2-cluster-activation script 2014-02-11 13:48:04 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
83358d4c03 tools: Add internal tags command. 2014-01-30 13:09:15 +00:00
Zdenek Kabelac
f18ee04fab lvmetad: respect LVM_LVMETAD_PIDFILE settings in lvm
Test LVM_LVMETAD_PIDFILE for pid for lvm command.
Fix WHATS_NEW envvar name usage
Fix init order in prepare_lvmetad to respect set vars
and avoid clash with system settings.
Update test to really test the 'is running' message.
2014-01-24 15:59:38 +01:00
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
Ville Skyttä
3776832499 man: syntax and spelling fixes. 2013-12-18 09:03:42 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
32080c4ff7 device: add physical block size info and make sure VG extent size >= PV's phys. block size 2013-12-12 15:02:36 +01:00
Peter Rajnoha
3eed0aa7dc man: -Z zeroes 4KiB, not just 1KiB 2013-12-12 15:02:12 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
16eab3ec08 config: shorten new sig wiping option string
Rename wipe_signatures_on_new_logical_volumes_when_zeroing  to
wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs.
2013-12-09 09:35:47 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
7b65363bf7 lvconvert: Implement --splitsnapshot. 2013-12-04 02:09:37 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
6232cac86c vgdisplay: select only active volumes groups if -A option is used
Where "active" means "at least one LV is active in the volume group".
2013-12-03 14:43:00 +01:00
Alasdair G Kergon
84394c0219 lvmetad: extend socket/pid file handling
Make it easier to run a live lvmetad in debugging mode and
to avoid conflicts if multiple test instances need to be run
alongside a live one.

No longer require -s when -f is used: use built-in default.
Add -p to lvmetad to specify the pid file.
No longer disable pidfile if -f used to run in foreground.
If specified socket file appears to be genuine but stale, remove it
before use.
On error, only remove lvmetad socket file if created by the same
process.  (Previous code removes socket even while a running instance
is using it!)
2013-11-29 20:56:29 +00:00
Peter Rajnoha
5968f07fd5 man: lvcreate -W/--wipesignatures 2013-11-27 15:49:15 +01:00
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