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From: Stuart Gathman <stuart@gathman.org>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshot behavior on classic LVM vs ThinLVM
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:29:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016916bc-b369-5efa-d48d-bd49cc7fd57b@gathman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd14a71d-3d35-6c75-698e-25cda1ff2d44@redhat.com>

On 04/13/2017 10:33 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>
>
> Now when you have thin-pool - it cause quite a lot of trouble across
> number of layers.  There are solvable and being fixed.
>
> But as the rule #1 still applies - do not run your thin-pool out of
> space - it will not always heal easily without losing date - there is
> not a simple straighforward way how to fix it (especially when user
> cannot ADD any new space he promised to have) 
IMO, the friendliest thing to do is to freeze the pool in read-only mode
just before running out of metadata.  While still involving application
level data loss (the data it was just trying to write), and still
crashing the system (the system may be up and pingable and maybe even
sshable, but is "crashed" for normal purposes), it is simple to
understand and recover.   A sysadmin could have a plain LV for the
system volume, so that logs and stuff would still be kept, and admin
logins work normally.  There is no panic, as the data is there read-only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-06 14:31 [linux-lvm] Snapshot behavior on classic LVM vs ThinLVM Gionatan Danti
2017-04-07  8:19 ` Mark Mielke
2017-04-07  9:12   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-07 13:50     ` L A Walsh
2017-04-07 16:33       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-13 12:59         ` Stuart Gathman
2017-04-13 13:52           ` Xen
2017-04-13 14:33             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-13 14:47               ` Xen
2017-04-13 15:29               ` Stuart Gathman [this message]
2017-04-13 15:43                 ` Xen
2017-04-13 17:26                   ` Stuart D. Gathman
2017-04-13 17:32                   ` Stuart D. Gathman
2017-04-14 15:17                     ` Xen
2017-04-14  7:27               ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14  7:23           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14 15:23             ` Xen
2017-04-14 15:53               ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14 16:08                 ` Stuart Gathman
2017-04-14 17:36                 ` Xen
2017-04-14 18:59                   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14 19:20                     ` Xen
2017-04-15  8:27                       ` Xen
2017-04-15 23:35                         ` Xen
2017-04-17 12:33                         ` Xen
2017-04-15 21:22                     ` Xen
2017-04-15 21:49                       ` Xen
2017-04-15 21:48                     ` Xen
2017-04-18 10:17                       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-18 13:23                         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-18 14:32                           ` Stuart D. Gathman
2017-04-19  7:22                         ` Xen
2017-04-07 22:24     ` Mark Mielke
2017-04-08 11:56       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-07 18:21 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2017-04-13 10:20 ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-13 12:41   ` Xen
2017-04-14  7:20     ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14  8:24       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-14  9:07         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-14  9:37           ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-14  9:55             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-22  7:14         ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-22 16:32           ` Xen
2017-04-22 20:58             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-22 21:17             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-23  5:29               ` Xen
2017-04-23  9:26                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-24 21:02                   ` Xen
2017-04-24 21:59                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-26  7:26                       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-26  7:42                         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-26  8:10                           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-26 11:23                             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-26 13:37                               ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-26 14:33                                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-26 16:37                                   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-26 18:32                                     ` Stuart Gathman
2017-04-26 19:24                                     ` Stuart Gathman
2017-05-02 11:00                                     ` Gionatan Danti
2017-05-12 13:02                                       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-05-12 13:42                                         ` Joe Thornber
2017-05-14 20:39                                           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-05-15 12:50                                             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-05-15 14:48                                               ` Gionatan Danti
2017-05-15 15:33                                                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-05-16  7:53                                                   ` Gionatan Danti
2017-05-16 10:54                                                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-05-16 13:38                                                       ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-27 18:39                       ` Xen
2018-02-28  9:26                         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-02-28 19:07                           ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-28 21:43                             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-01  7:14                               ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-01  8:31                                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-01  9:43                                   ` Gianluca Cecchi
2018-03-01 11:10                                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-01  9:52                                   ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-01 11:23                                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-01 12:48                                       ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-01 16:00                                         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-01 16:26                                           ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-03 18:32                               ` Xen
2018-03-04 20:34                                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-03 18:17                             ` Xen
2018-03-04 20:53                               ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-05  9:42                                 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-05 10:18                                   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-05 14:27                                     ` Gionatan Danti
2018-03-03 17:52                           ` Xen
2018-03-04 23:27                             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-22 21:22           ` Zdenek Kabelac
2017-04-24 13:49             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-04-24 14:48               ` Zdenek Kabelac

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