From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast06.extmail.prod.ext.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.55.22]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 813C310ABC8F for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-2.mimecast.com [207.211.31.81]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2572A18AE965 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi1-f178.google.com with SMTP id c77so6108563oib.7 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:57:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Mauricio Tavares Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Failed merge, still running? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:50 AM Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > > lvconvert --merge vmhost_vg0/desktop_snap_20200121 > > > > and instead of seeing the usual percentage of how far it has > > completed, I got nothing. lvs -a -o +devices shows > > > > LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin > > Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert Devices > > desktop vmhost_vg0 Owi-a-s--- 20.00g > > /dev/sdb3(14848) > > [desktop_snap_20200121] vmhost_vg0 Swi-a-s--- 10.00g desktop 100.00 > > While not a guru, I think I can tell you the issue. It looks like > the snapshot was full (says 100.00). The snapshot is unusable at > that point. Maybe it wasn't before you started the merge, and the > merge sets it to 100.00 when it starts, I haven't noticed. > > > Before I blow that lv up, what else should I be checking? > > What was the snapshot percent used before you started the merge? > Based on the 3 times I tried to do the patching (unsuccessfully) and then rewind and try again, I would say under 30%. I had shut guest down, created snapshot, boot it up, and then let it try to download some 2G worth of patches. I do not know why it is showing 100% above. > -- > Stuart D. Gathman > "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >