From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Backup superblock for thin provision?
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 15:18:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573B1A13.7050006@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160516185518.GA3320@redhat.com>
On 16/05/2016 20:55, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
> There is more to the thinp metadata than just the metadata superblock.
>
> The DM thin-pool's metadata device was purposely split out from the data
> device to allow for additional metadata fault protection using RAID.
>
> I'll defer to the LVM developers for if/how LVM can be used to have
> thinp metadata redundancy even if you don't have multiple devices to be
> able to use a conventional RAID device.
>
Sure - I'm using thinp on a RAID6 volume, with two disks redundancy.
But what about an user error, or a lvm-related bug, which invalidate the
superblock? In this case, RAID is of no help. On the other side, a
superblock backup copy can be used to restore the system without major
data loss.
More in general, how do you deal with metadata backups?
Thanks.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 10:39 [linux-lvm] Backup superblock for thin provision? Gionatan Danti
2016-05-16 18:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2016-05-17 9:10 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2016-05-17 13:22 ` Gionatan Danti
2016-05-17 13:18 ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
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