From: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
To: lvm-devel <lvm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] [lvm-devel] Can't work normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:59:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMRbyyuSO+LdfnESO_56GDKqGDAOXah0PXbfV0s3b3GOP0XJug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5AB52B8D020000F9000B14B9@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:30 AM Gang He <ghe@suse.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Since I am new to LVM area, but I got a problem about LVM can't work
> normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine.
> Then, I sent this problem to the list, to see if we can get a fix or there
> has been a fix.
> The problem is very easy to reproduce,
> 1) create two virtual machines(tb0307-nd1, tb0307-nd2), create two virtual
> disks.
>
Do you mean 2 logical volumes on the host?
> 2) attach two virtual disks to VM1(tb0307-nd1).
>
Are you attaching the logical volumes created on the host to the VM?
> tb0307-nd1:/# lsblk
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sr0 11:0 1 4.3G 0 rom
> vda 254:0 0 40G 0 disk
> ├─vda1 254:1 0 4G 0 part [SWAP]
> ├─vda2 254:2 0 23.6G 0 part /
> └─vda3 254:3 0 12.4G 0 part /home
> vdb 254:16 0 40G 0 disk
> vdc 254:32 0 20G 0 disk <<= disk1
> vdd 254:48 0 20G 0 disk <<= disk2
> 3) pvcreate two virtual disks, and add them to vg1.
> tb0307-nd1:/# pvcreate /dev/vdc
> Physical volume "/dev/vdc" successfully created.
> tb0307-nd1:/# pvcreate /dev/vdd
> Physical volume "/dev/vdd" successfully created.
> tb0307-nd1:/# pvs
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc lvm2 --- 20.00g 20.00g
> /dev/vdd lvm2 --- 20.00g 20.00g
> tb0307-nd1:/# vgcreate vg1 /dev/vdc /dev/vdd
> 4) disconnect two virtual disks from VM1, and attach disk1 to
> VM2(tb0307-nd2).
>
If /dev/vdc and /dev/vdd are logical volumes on the host, lvm on the host
just scanned these lvs and discovered the metadata created within the VM.
> 5) delete vg1, create vg2, and add disk1 to vg2.
> tb0307-nd2:~ # pvs
> WARNING: Device for PV t6gjHU-dtY4-th5O-A0mr-5OEC-R1ZK-TPQgIh not found
> or rejected by a filter.
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc vg1 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 20.00g
> [unknown] vg1 lvm2 a-m 20.00g 20.00g
> tb0307-nd2:~ # pvremove /dev/vdc
> WARNING: Device for PV t6gjHU-dtY4-th5O-A0mr-5OEC-R1ZK-TPQgIh not found
> or rejected by a filter.
> PV /dev/vdc is used by VG vg1 so please use vgreduce first.
> (If you are certain you need pvremove, then confirm by using --force
> twice.)
> /dev/vdc: physical volume label not removed.
> tb0307-nd2:~ # vgreduce --removemissing vg1
> WARNING: Device for PV t6gjHU-dtY4-th5O-A0mr-5OEC-R1ZK-TPQgIh not found
> or rejected by a filter.
> Wrote out consistent volume group vg1.
> tb0307-nd2:~ # pvs
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc vg1 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 20.00g
> tb0307-nd2:~ # vgremove vg1
> Volume group "vg1" successfully removed
> tb0307-nd2:~ # vgcreate vg2 /dev/vdc
> Volume group "vg2" successfully created
> tb0307-nd2:~ # vgs
> VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
> vg2 1 0 0 wz--n- 20.00g 20.00g
> tb0307-nd2:~ # pvs
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc vg2 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 20.00g
>
> 6) attach disk2 to VM2(tb0307-nd2), the vg on VM2 looks abnormal.
> tb0307-nd2:~ # pvs
> WARNING: Device for PV JJOL4H-kc0j-jyTD-LDwl-71FZ-dHKM-YoFtNV not found
> or rejected by a filter.
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc vg2 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 20.00g
> /dev/vdd vg1 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 20.00g
> [unknown] vg1 lvm2 a-m 20.00g 20.00g
> tb0307-nd2:~ # vgs
> WARNING: Device for PV JJOL4H-kc0j-jyTD-LDwl-71FZ-dHKM-YoFtNV not found
> or rejected by a filter.
> VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
> vg1 2 0 0 wz-pn- 39.99g 39.99g
> vg2 1 0 0 wz--n- 20.00g 20.00g
>
> 7) reboot VM2, the result looks worse (vdc disk belongs to two vg).
> tb0307-nd2:/mnt/shared # pvs
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/vdc vg1 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 0
> /dev/vdc vg2 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 10.00g
> /dev/vdd vg1 lvm2 a-- 20.00g 9.99g
>
>
> It looks like LVM2 meta consistency problem? please help to take a look.
>
If you want to attach logical volumes to VMs, you must make sure that these
volumes are not accessible to LVM on the host. A good way to achieve this is
to setup devices:filter in lvm.conf so LVM can access only the disks
required
by the host (e.g. /dev/sda2).
Check this for more info on this problem:
https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/12/lvm-configuration-the-easy-way/
Nir
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 8:30 [linux-lvm] Can't work normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine Gang He
2018-03-23 9:04 ` Xen
2018-03-26 6:04 ` Gang He
2018-03-26 10:17 ` Fran Garcia
2018-03-26 10:23 ` Fran Garcia
2018-03-27 5:55 ` Gang He
2018-03-27 8:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-28 2:09 ` Gang He
2018-03-27 9:12 ` Xen
2018-03-27 10:22 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-27 10:27 ` Xen
2018-03-27 22:17 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-28 10:08 ` Xen
2018-03-26 10:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-05-18 4:56 ` Gang He
2018-03-26 11:33 ` Xen
2018-10-16 20:59 ` Nir Soffer [this message]
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