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From: Ming Hung Tsai <mtsai@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM cachepool inconsistency after power event
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:56:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALjSBEt0TdOr4jL4JhCKrRCfO+LiT_0tNaQYfQ9mLgQNjhq8Aw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPWGHt11L-ZGtLbZ08UVga7WP5fq6pY7gUS9HYtnVWvB11zj7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 3:57 PM Krzysztof Chojnowski <frirajder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 6:57 PM Ming Hung Tsai <mtsai@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:54 PM Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > lvconvert --repair should be able to handle this case - although likely
>> > without 'smart' placement' of fixed metadata (pvmove needed after metadata fix)
>
> I tried running lvconvert --repair earlier (please see the 1st of my mails) and even trough the operation finished successfully (as in the $? == 0) I couldn't activate the volume afterwards.
>
>>
>> cache_repair might not handle this case perfectly. If possible, you
>> could upload the "original" metadata somewhere for me to take a look,
>> by dd it into a binary file.
>
> Unfortunately I deleted the original metadata volume when I was trying to remove the cached volume.
> So right now, I guess, the question is how do I remove the cached volume, as the repair doesn't seem to be possible.

Hi,

You could simply detach the cache:
sudo lvconvert vg0/tpg1-wdata --splitcache

Or alternatively, reinitialize the cache by swapping the metadata with
a blank one, which bypasses cache_check examination and then steps to
metadata formatting:
sudo lvcreate vg0 --size 40m --name cmeta_bak
sudo lvconvert vg0/wdata_cachepool_cpool --swapmetadata --poolmetadata cmeta_bak

then you should be able to activate the tpg1-wdata.

BTW, could you help provide the reproducing steps? I guess that you
performed a power cut soon after creating the cache. Thanks.


Ming-Hung Tsai

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-08  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-04 13:30 [linux-lvm] LVM cachepool inconsistency after power event Krzysztof Chojnowski
2021-10-05 10:34 ` Ming-Hung Tsai
2021-10-05 11:34 ` Krzysztof Chojnowski
2021-10-05 15:51   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2021-10-05 16:56     ` Ming Hung Tsai
2021-10-06  8:27       ` Krzysztof Chojnowski
2021-10-08  7:56         ` Ming Hung Tsai [this message]
2021-10-11 12:16           ` Krzysztof Chojnowski
2021-10-11 16:29             ` Ming Hung Tsai
2021-10-11 18:57               ` Krzysztof Chojnowski
2021-10-05 11:13 Krzysztof Chojnowski

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