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From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: [linux-lvm] Backup superblock for thin provision?
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:39:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5735AEE4.4080402@assyoma.it> (raw)

Hi all,
using thin provisioning in production machines (using it mostly for its 
fast snapshot support, rather than for thin provision / storage 
overcommit by itself), I wonder what to do if a critical metadata 
corruption, as the loss of the superblock, should happen.

Filesystems generally have some backup copy of the superblock; should 
the primary one fail, another copy can be used.

So I have the following questions:
- how about thin LVM? Has it a backup superblock somewhere?
- how can the metadata be reliable backupped without shutting down the 
volume?
- more generally, how to deal with metadata backup? Does vgcfgrestore 
works for thin volumes?

Thank you all.

-- 
Danti Gionatan
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             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-13 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-13 10:39 Gionatan Danti [this message]
2016-05-16 18:55 ` [linux-lvm] Backup superblock for thin provision? Mike Snitzer
2016-05-17  9:10   ` Zdenek Kabelac
2016-05-17 13:22     ` Gionatan Danti
2016-05-17 13:18   ` Gionatan Danti

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