From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>,
LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
listac@nebelschwaden.de
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] metadata device too small
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:25:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6adaf224-ad46-1904-9fd3-f5b4527f3432@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba1b5f76-88eb-67df-29bd-029813303200@redhat.com>
On 13/01/20 15:49, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Hi
>
> Well the size is 'almost' 16GiB - and when the size of thin-pools
> metadata is always maintained by lvm2 - it's OK - the size is
> internally 'clamped' correctly - the problem is when you use this size
> 'externally' - so you make 16GiB regular LV used for thin-repair - and
> then you swap-in such LV into thin-pool.
>
> So to make it clear - when you 'lvcreate' thin-pool with 16GiB of
> metadata - it will work - but then when you will try to fix such
> thin-pool - it will fail. So it's always better to create thin-pool
> with -L15.812G then using 16G.
Understood, thank you so much.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-13 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-11 17:57 [linux-lvm] metadata device too small Ede Wolf
2020-01-11 22:00 ` Ede Wolf
2020-01-11 22:07 ` Ede Wolf
2020-01-13 15:02 ` Marian Csontos
2020-01-13 16:35 ` Ede Wolf
2020-01-13 19:11 ` Zdenek Kabelac
[not found] ` <74436e16-d2f6-71a0-c264-71ce417de08c@nebelschwaden.de>
2020-01-13 21:29 ` Ede Wolf
2020-01-12 18:11 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-01-13 14:32 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-01-13 14:49 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-01-13 15:25 ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
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