From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] how to recover after thin pool metadata did fill up?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:35:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018133523.GA24912@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB12DB70-5C4F-4936-9EDE-BFF4096D064F@active.ee>
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:21:35PM +0300, Andres Toomsalu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm aware that thin provisioning is not yet production ready (no metadata resize) - but is there a way to recover from thin pool failure when pool metadata was filled up?
We don't support online resizing yet. But you can do this offline by following these rough steps:
i) dump your metadata device to a text file using thin_dump. You may
want to eyeball this to see if it's what you expect.
ii) Create a new metadata lv. Better to create a completely new one
than try and extend the old one and risk losing data if you make a
mistake.
iii) Use thin_restore to write the dump to the new metadata volume
iv) Tell lvm to use the new metadata area for your pool. I'm not sure how to do this last step. Kabi can you help please?
- Joe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 20:21 [linux-lvm] how to recover after thin pool metadata did fill up? Andres Toomsalu
2012-10-18 10:30 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-10-18 10:42 ` Andres Toomsalu
2012-10-18 10:55 ` Andres Toomsalu
2012-10-18 11:29 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-10-18 13:28 ` Spelic
2012-10-18 13:35 ` Andres Toomsalu
2012-10-18 13:43 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-10-18 13:47 ` Andres Toomsalu
2012-10-18 14:01 ` Joe Thornber
2012-10-18 13:35 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
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