[linux-lvm] Re: Re: LVM + Multipathing

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>]

Luca Berra wrote:

> i meant that LVM (actually device-mapper) does not do anything special.
> it just passes the IO requests from the fs layer to the
> underlying block device and if the underlyng block device returns an IO
> error then it is passed back to the fs. which will cause ext2 to remount
> the filesystem readonly.

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying.

In my case, the block device is hidden by the multipathing layer. 
It is something like:
(Block Device(Multipathing(LVM(Filesystem) ) ) )

Now during takeover/giveback, the multipathing layer is intelligent enough to
wait till <120 seconds before declaring that the path has really gone offline
and no more paths are available.
If within the 120 seconds time span, the takeover succeeds, the path is back
online and everything works fine in a non-LVM setup.

It is only in an LVM setup that a takeover/giveback ends up with the host OS
having a filesystem read-only problem.
Now if I go with your explanation, I shouldn't have had the filesystem read-only
problem since the I/O is being passed on to the multipathing layer which is
intelligent enough to wait for N seconds before really sending an I/O Error.

Are there any timeout options in LVM to allow it to wait for N seconds before
sending out an error ?
(I understand that LVM might not be involved, but just wondering).


Thanks,
Ritesh
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