From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:55:51 -0500 From: David Teigland Message-ID: <20170918185551.GB6025@redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Option to silence "WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes exceeds the size of thin pool" 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gionatan Danti Cc: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:52:01PM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Hi all, > being an heavy snapshot user, I wonder if (and how) to silence such a > warning: > > "WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (2.00 GiB) exceeds the size of thin > pool cl_gdanti-lenovo/thinpool (1.00 GiB)!" > > I fully understand the reasoning for this warning, but snapshots are almost > guaranteed to raise it. I found that by setting the > thin_pool_autoextend_threshold the warning disappears, but on some pool I > would rather like to left autoextend disabled. > > So, any changes to disable the warning at least when taking snapshots? > Thanks. It's definitely an irritation, and I described a configurable alternative here that has not yet been implemented: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465974 Is this the sort of topic where we should start making use of https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues ?