Try to bring the lvmetad usage text and man page closer to the code.
There seem to be 3 useful ways to use -d with lvmetad at the moment:
-d all
-d wire
-d debug
(They can also be comma-separated like -d wire,debug.)
Prior to the last release, -d, -dd and -ddd were supported.
Fail if an unrecognised debug arg is supplied on the command line.
Change -V to report the same version as the lvm binary: previously it
just reported version 0.
Peter Rajnoha [Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:37:57 +0000 (14:37 +0200)]
scripts: introduce blkdeactivate
blkdeactivate - utility to deactivate block devices
Traverses the tree of block devices and tries to deactivate them.
Currently, it supports device-mapper-based devices together with LVM.
See man/blkdeactivate.8 for more info.
It is targeted for use during shutdown to properly deactivate the
whole block device stack - systemd and init scripts are provided as
well. However, it might be used directly on command line too.
Please, see the commentary at the top of the blkdeactivate script
for dependencies and versions of other utilities required.
Peter Rajnoha [Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:21:25 +0000 (14:21 +0200)]
systemd: add deps to order units more properly
lvm2-activation-early.service (generated by activation generator) should
be ordered before cryptsetup.target.
lvm2-monitor.service should be ordered after lvm2-activation.service,
if used. The lvm2-activation.service will replace fedora-storage-init.service
and fedora-storage-init-late.service in the end, but let's have it
prepared now.
Peter Rajnoha [Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:53:04 +0000 (11:53 +0200)]
libdm: remove dm dev without error even with malformed UUID
On each ioctl return, the device UUID is decoded from \xNN format.
If the UUID of the device being *removed* is malformed (e.g. it
hasn't been corrected before), just remove it without any error
as the UUID is not needed anymore - the device is gone anyway.
Otherwise a misleading error message would be issued just after
the removal:
# dmsetup remove test
The UUID "a b" should be mangled but it contains blacklisted characters.
Command failed
Jonathan Brassow [Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:47:04 +0000 (11:47 -0500)]
TEST: Add lvchange-partial.sh and vgchange-partial.sh to the test suite
Commit 3501f17fd0fcec2a1fbb8aeecf228e86ee022d99 enables a limited set
of metadata updates for partial LV/VGs when issuing lvchange or vgchange.
These tests verify those changes operate as intended.
Jonathan Brassow [Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:33:10 +0000 (11:33 -0500)]
[lv|vg]change: Allow limited metadata changes when PVs are missing
A while back, the behavior of LVM changed from allowing metadata changes
when PVs were missing to not allowing changes. Until recently, this
change was tolerated by HA-LVM by forcing a 'vgreduce --removemissing'
before trying (again) to add tags to an LV and then activate it. LVM
mirroring requires that failed devices are removed anyway, so this was
largely harmless. However, RAID LVs do not require devices to be removed
from the array in order to be activated. In fact, in an HA-LVM
environment this would be very undesirable. Device failures in such an
environment can often be transient and it would be much better to restore
the device to the array than synchronize an entirely new device.
There are two methods that can be used to setup an HA-LVM environment:
"clvm" or "tagging". For RAID LVs, "clvm" is out of the question because
RAID LVs are not supported in clustered VGs - not even in an exclusively
activated manner. That leaves "tagging". HA-LVM uses tagging - coupled
with 'volume_list' - to ensure that only one machine can have an LV active
at a time. If updates are not allowed when a PV is missing, it is
impossible to add or remove tags to allow for activation. This removes
one of the most basic functionalities of HA-LVM - site redundancy. If
mirroring or RAID is used to replicate the storage in two data centers
and one of them goes down, a server and a storage device are lost. When
the service fails-over to the alternate site, the VG will be "partial".
Unable to add a tag to the VG/LV, the RAID device will be unable to
activate.
The solution is to allow vgchange and lvchange to alter the LVM metadata
for a limited set of options - --[add|del]tag included. The set of
allowable options are ones that do not cause changes to the DM kernel
target (like --resync would) or could alter the structure of the LV
(like allocation or conversion).
Peter Rajnoha [Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:03:47 +0000 (17:03 +0200)]
dmsetup: also apply 'mangle' command for UUIDs
Compared to names, UUIDs can't be renamed once they are created
for a device. The 'mangle' command will just issue an error message
about a need for manual intervention in this case - reactivating the
device (remove + create) does the job as the defualt mangling mode
used is "auto" and that will assign a correct mangled form the UUID.
Peter Rajnoha [Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:59:47 +0000 (16:59 +0200)]
libdm: add dm_task_get_uuid_mangled/unmangled
Just like we already have existing mangling support for
device-mapper names, we need exactly the same for device-mapper
UUIDs as their character whitelist is wider than what udev supports.
In case udev is used to create entries in /dev based on UUIDs
and these UUIDs contain characters not supported by udev,
we'll end up with incorrect /dev content for such devices.
So we need to mangle them to a form that is supported by udev.
The mangling used for UUIDs follows the mangling used for names
(that is already supported and used throughout). That means,
setting the name mangling mode via dm_set_name_mangling_mode
affects mangling used for UUIDs in exactly the same manner.
It would be useless to add a new and separate
dm_set_uuid_mangling_mode fn, we'll reuse existing interface.
Peter Rajnoha [Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:49:54 +0000 (16:49 +0200)]
systemd: remove ExecStartPost from lvm2-lvmetad.service.
The ExecStartPost with pvscan --cache in lvm2-lvmetad.service
is not needed now as this is called transparently within the
first LVM command that queries lvmetad.