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From: Marian Csontos <mcsontos@redhat.com>
To: patrik@dsl.sk, device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Reducing size of thin spare metadata, thin metadata
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:17:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54339399.7060707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAOsTSnJy21c4x8rO6ewVatsTLdTAZ=ERPg71Gf4s0V-qOD0cg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/06/2014 11:05 AM, Patrik Horník wrote:
> Thank you very much, now I understand.
>
> But apparently I dont understand exact function of " lvconvert
> --thinpool  vg/mypool   --poolmetadata mytemplv" So it also copies
> metadata from current metadata LV to mytemplv?

Nope, the metadata are copied by `thin_repair` step:

# thin_repair  -i /dev/vg/mytemplv   -o /dev/vg/mynewsizemeta

The lvconvert "only" swaps LVs.

-- Martian

>
> Then what about "lvconvert --thinpool  vg/mypool   --poolmetadata
> mynewsizemeta"? It does not do that because mynewsizemeta is smaller
> than current metadata mytemplv or?
>
>
> 2014-10-06 10:57 GMT+02:00 Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>:
>> Dne 6.10.2014 v 10:48 Patrik Horník napsal(a):
>>>
>>> Thanks Zdenku. But you did not answer some of my questions, which I
>>> need to know to decide... So is there a way I can create smaller spare
>>> metadata LV? In mentioned manual steps what do I need mytemplv for and
>>> why cant I use original pool metadata as input of thin_repair?
>>
>>
>> Spare volume is maintained to have the size at least as the biggest
>> pool metadata volume in VG.
>>
>> There is no point to keep smaller reserved space.
>>
>> We do not allow to activate 'subvolumes' - thus you cannot activate
>> just 'thin pool metadata'  - that's why you need to swap _tmeta
>> out thin pool.
>>
>> Zdenek
>>
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-06  7:28 Reducing size of thin spare metadata, thin metadata Patrik Horník
2014-10-06  7:39 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-10-06  7:59   ` Patrik Horník
2014-10-06  8:05     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-10-06  8:12       ` Patrik Horník
2014-10-06  8:31         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-10-06  8:48           ` Patrik Horník
2014-10-06  8:57             ` Zdenek Kabelac
     [not found]               ` <CAAOsTS=j1mUA+caJ35ChDvpQJTu2m8OHVPCEZFTJHdn9cgdhsw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-06  9:05                 ` Fwd: " Patrik Horník
2014-10-07  7:17                   ` Marian Csontos [this message]

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