[dm-devel] How do you force-close a dm device after a disk failure?

[Zdenek Kabelac]

Dne 14.9.2015 v 10:59 Adam Nielsen napsal(a):
> Thanks for your response!
>
>> You need to show your 'broken' table first.
>
> $ dmsetup table
> backup: 0 11720531968 crypt aes-xts-plain64
>    0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0
>    9:10 4096

It's not really useful to show just 1 device.

Whole dm  table with all deps needs to be known.

'dmsetup table'
'dmsetup status'
'dmsetup ls --tree'
'dmsetup into -f'

>> However for the 'standard' linear device - you could always replace
>> opened device with error target with '--force'.
>
> I'm not sure how to do this, could you please elaborate?  I thought
> "dmsetup remove --force" would do this but as that doesn't work, I tried
> this also:
>
> $ dmsetup reload backup --table "0 11720531968 error"
> $ dmsetup info backup
> Name:              backup
> State:             ACTIVE
> Read Ahead:        4096
> Tables present:    LIVE & INACTIVE
> Open count:        1
> Event number:      0
> Major, minor:      253, 0
> Number of targets: 1
> UUID: CRYPT-LUKS1-d0b3d38e421545908537dc50f59fb217-backup
> $ dmsetup resume backup
> <no response, dmsetup frozen, kill -9 doesn't work>

really state of whole table needs to be known.

>> Also note - dmsetup remove  supports --deferred removal (see man
>> page).
>
> Oh I didn't notice that.  It doesn't seem to have much of an effect
> though:

Sure it will not fix your problem - it's like lazy umount...

>
> The underlying device is still in use by dm-crypt.  I could not unmount
> the filesystem stored on the dm device as the kernel said it was still
> in use (presumably by the pending writes), so I did a lazy unmount of
> the filesystem.  I think this is what's holding the dm device open and
> causing dmsetup to stop responding all the time.
>
> Any suggestions how to proceed?

What is not clear to me is - what is your expectation here ?
Obviously your system is far more broken - so placing 'error' target
for your backup device will not fix it.

You should likely attach also portion of 'dmesg' - there surely will be 
written what is going wrong with your system.

i.e. you cannot expect 'remove --force' will work when your machine start to 
show kernel errors.

Zdenek