From: Stuart Gathman <stuart@gathman.org>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Continue an interrupted mirror sync?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:42:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5245A770.5000402@gathman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHuLeSktKr++TH6cqsaHYS9CEDNCm9DVYAy=f8nWPkz8vEpjFw@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/27/2013 05:26 AM, Justin Lee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know If a mirror sync process is interrupted by some
> uncontrollable reason, is it possible to continue the sync process
> near the point where it was interrupted?
>
> Volume mirroring may take a long time to be done, if the connection of
> the storage device is over an unreliable channel (such as SAN, iSCSI
> or Fibre Channel) it is possible that ongoing sync will be interrupted
> over and over again due to frequent connection loss so that the sync
> will never complete...
>
> Has LVM existing solutions for the issue? Or any suggestion? Thank you!
Pretty much the entire purpose of the mirror log is to accomplish this
(track which blocks are in sync). Is this a real problem you've
encountered (mirror log is broken), or a theoretical one? If you
created a mirror without a log, then yes, it pretty much has to start
over each time. A compromise might be to keep the log in memory. This
would handle SAN storage going up and down, but would have to start over
after a reboot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-27 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-27 9:26 [linux-lvm] Continue an interrupted mirror sync? Justin Lee
2013-09-27 15:42 ` Stuart Gathman [this message]
2013-09-28 4:58 ` Justin Lee
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