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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Where to report bugs?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:18:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003191821.GO18444@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4703E000.4050307@theendofthetunnel.de>

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:31:28PM +0200, Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> 8. Use vgreduce --removemissing to get VG data up again
> LV origin is gone and can only be brought back from backup with
> vgcfgrestore.
 
Right.  So you're asking for vgreduce --removemissing to be enhanced
to consider just removing the snapshot and leaving behind the LV if
it possible.  Seems reasonable.

The logic that needs improving is in _remove_lv() in tools/vgreduce.c
if anyone wants to have a go at fixing it.

                /* Use the origin LV */
                lv = snap_seg->origin;

Perhaps it should have a second variable to hold the origin, and in the
following loop only deal with the current cow instead of all of them.

(It needs to handle two cases: origin LV is gone=>loop and remove all snapshots
as well as the origin; snapshot LV only is gone=>only remove this snapshot.
Maybe push the remove_snapshot code into a separate function then call
it from two places for the two different cases, avoiding the loop for the
one snapshot only case.)

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 15:18 [linux-lvm] Where to report bugs? Hannes Dorbath
2007-10-03 17:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-10-03 18:31   ` Hannes Dorbath
2007-10-03 19:18     ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]

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