From: Ilia Zykov <mail@service4.ru>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] exposing snapshot block device
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:12:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4daf9dc2-c2b4-7191-80c4-fa2073d7b5e9@service4.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f73ab6ce-ba22-34f8-7153-e876b13fab5c@assyoma.it>
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On 23.10.2019 14:08, Gionatan Danti wrote:
>
> For example, consider a completely filled 64k chunk thin volume (with
> thinpool having ample free space). Snapshotting it and writing a 4k
> block on origin will obviously cause a read of the original 64k chunk,
> an in-memory change of the 4k block and a write of the entire modified
> 64k block to a new location. But writing, say, a 1 MB block should *not*
> cause the same read on source: after all, the read data will be
> immediately discarded, overwritten by the changed 1 MB block.
>
> However, my testing shows that source chunks are always read, even when
> completely overwritten.
Not only read but sometimes write.
I watched it without snapshot. Only zeroing was enabled. Before wrote
new chunks "dd bs=1048576 ..." chunks were zeroed. But for security it's
good. IMHO: In this case best choice firstly write chunks to the disk
and then give this chunks to the volume.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-22 10:47 [linux-lvm] exposing snapshot block device Dalebjörk, Tomas
2019-10-22 13:57 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-22 15:29 ` Dalebjörk, Tomas
2019-10-22 15:36 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-22 16:13 ` Dalebjörk, Tomas
2019-10-23 10:26 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 10:56 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-22 16:15 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-10-22 17:02 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-22 21:38 ` Gionatan Danti
2019-10-22 22:53 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-10-23 6:58 ` Gionatan Danti
2019-10-23 10:06 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-23 10:12 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 10:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 11:08 ` Gionatan Danti
2019-10-23 11:24 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-23 11:26 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-24 16:01 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-25 16:31 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-11-04 5:54 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-11-04 10:07 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-11-04 14:40 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-11-04 15:04 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-11-04 17:28 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-11-05 16:24 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-11-05 16:40 ` Mikulas Patocka
2019-11-05 20:56 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-11-06 9:22 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-11-07 16:54 ` Mikulas Patocka
2019-11-07 17:29 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-04 12:09 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-04 12:37 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-07 13:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-09-07 14:14 ` Dalebjörk, Tomas
2020-09-07 14:17 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-07 16:34 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-07 16:42 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-07 17:37 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-07 17:50 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-08 12:32 ` Dalebjörk, Tomas
2020-09-07 19:56 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-07 20:22 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-07 21:02 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-10-23 12:12 ` Ilia Zykov [this message]
2019-10-23 12:20 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-10-23 13:05 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 14:40 ` Gionatan Danti
2019-10-23 15:46 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-10-23 12:59 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 14:37 ` Gionatan Danti
2019-10-23 15:37 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-10-23 17:16 ` Gionatan Danti
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