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From: Robb Walker <rwalker@DRWHoldings.com>
To: "linux-lvm@redhat.com" <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm thin provisioning snapshots and btrfs
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:15:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411424085397.51396@DRWHoldings.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410908945365.65274@DRWHoldings.com>

Also see the same results on ubu 14.04.1 lvm thin provisioning + btrfs. haven't tried arch 3.16 kernel and tools yet

Robb Walker
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From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com <linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of Robb Walker <rwalker@DRWHoldings.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:10 PM
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] lvm thin provisioning snapshots and btrfs

Has anyone used lvm thin prov + btrfs on rhel/cent6u5?


The build I am using off base iso with updates thru end feb 2014 so I have not yet applied all updates. However from rhel alerts I see no specific fixes for lvm or btrfs from that date forward. Unless I missed something.


With lvm thin prov + ext4 I get expected results. When I take a snapshot. I see the snapshot is the state of the lvm volume at the point of time of snapshot creation.


For btrfs, I am using a root subvolume mounted as @foo_root with a thinly provisioned lvm underneath. Same setup just using btrfs.

I take a thin snapshot

lvcreate -n lv_root_thin -s vg_thin/lv_root

snapshot is created

activate with lvchange -Kay  /dev/vg_thin/lv_root_thin


I then mount the snap with mount -odefaults,subvol=@foo_root /dev/vg_thin/lv_root_thin /snaps

The contents match the origin lvm. Both lvms, origin and snap stay in sync with whatever changes I make.

At one point I thought that maybe it was snapping at the subv level so I decided a snapshot of the root vol. However the deletion also appeared in the thin snapshot


Also couple notes:

I never see in lvs that the thin snapshot goes -o- online as I do in ext4

chdir into the /snaps and running df -h . shows that I'm in the snapshot

chdir into /snaps/\@foo_root and running df -h . shows I'm in the origin vol. <this is where I thought it might be snapping at the "raw" brtfs subvolume level


Hopefully this is somewhat clear


Regards and TIA


Robb Walker
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 23:10 [linux-lvm] lvm thin provisioning snapshots and btrfs Robb Walker
2014-09-22 22:15 ` Robb Walker [this message]
2014-09-22 23:02   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-09-23  1:06     ` Robb Walker

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