[linux-lvm] moving logical volumes to another system *remotely* - how?
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at wpkg.org
Fri Mar 2 11:42:18 UTC 2007
Lars Ellenberg schrieb:
> / 2007-02-23 16:59:23 +0100
> \ Tomasz Chmielewski:
>> paddy at panici.net schrieb:
>>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:48:07PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>> I have a server which stores several LVM-2 logical volumes.
>>>>
>>>> As this system is pretty loaded, I'd like to move some of the logical
>>>> volumes to another machine. It has to be done remotely, so I can't do it
>>>> as described in the LVM HOWTO (where one basically adds/replaces disks in one machine).
>>>>
>>>> My common sense tells me that I should:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Unmount/not use the logical volumes on the source server
>>>> 2. Make volumes of the same size on the target server
>>>> 3. Copy it somehow over network
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure of 2 (make volumes of exactly the same size)
>>> check your PE size, otherwise does what it says on the tin.
>> Hmm, how? I just want to move some (not all) logical volumes.
>>
>> I guess fdisk is a good idea?
>>
>> # fdisk -l /dev/LVM2/ocsi1
>>
>> Disk /dev/LVM2/ocsi1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
>>
>>
>> 3221225472 / 1024 = 3145728
>>
>>
>> lvcreate -L3145728k -n ocsi1 LVM2
>>
>> Hmm, hopefully, it's the right size?
>
>
> how about:
> lvs --units k
Indeed this one is more LVM-specific.
Didn't work for me though - my kernel oopsed a while ago, and all lvm
commands stopped to work. When started, they were just in a "D" state.
The kernel oopsed after I created a snapshot, made it full
(invalidated), and tried to remove it.
The kernel I used was 2.6.17.8 running on Debian-ARM:
# lvremove /dev/LVM2/pdc-backup-new
/dev/sda2: Checksum error
Do you really want to remove active logical volume "pdc-backup-new"?
[y/n]: y
Segmentation fault
# dmesg
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 31376632
pgd = 8cce8000
[31376632] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: f3 [#1]
Modules linked in: iscsi_trgt bonding dm_snapshot dm_mirror loop
CPU: 0
PC is at exit_exception_table+0x44/0x70 [dm_snapshot]
LR is at exit_exception_table+0x40/0x70 [dm_snapshot]
pc : [<7f00bbe4>] lr : [<7f00bbe0>] Not tainted
sp : 8718dd24 ip : 31376632 fp : 8718dd48
r10: 804f14e0 r9 : 8718c000 r8 : 00000080
r7 : 90ba4218 r6 : 00000043 r5 : 8ee3577c r4 : 31376632
r3 : 8e6e7000 r2 : 00000078 r1 : 8e6e7000 r0 : 804f14e0
Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: 397F Table: ACCE8000 DAC: 00000015
Process lvremove (pid: 17844, stack limit = 0x8718c198)
Stack: (0x8718dd24 to 0x8718e000)
dd20: 8ee35740 8f643940 8f643944 90b9f020 00200200 00100100
8718dd70
dd40: 8718dd4c 7f00bcb0 7f00bbac 90b9f020 8abc4460 00000001 00000034
00000004
dd60: c134fd04 8718dd90 8718dd74 8016791c 7f00bc1c 8ee355c0 8abc4460
00000000
dd80: 8016aab0 8718ddac 8718dd94 80166888 801678a8 8cf55aa0 8abc4460
8718c000
dda0: 8718ddc4 8718ddb0 8016a284 80166828 90b98000 90b98000 8718ddd8
8718ddc8
ddc0: 8016aaf4 8016a208 000ae5d8 8718df44 8718dddc 8016a888 8016aabc
8be31468
dde0: 00000000 8718de00 8718ddf4 00000004 00000006 00000000 00004000
00000134
de00: 00000000 00000000 0000020c 00000000 00000000 0000fd26 00000000
00000000
de20: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
de40: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
de60: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
de80: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dea0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dec0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dee0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
df00: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
df20: 8619d0a0 000ae5d8 c134fd04 00000005 8001fea4 2aadea7c 8718df5c
8718df48
df40: 800826a8 8016a5ac 8619d0a0 000ae5d8 8718df84 8718df60 80082920
8008264c
df60: ffffffff 8718dfac 8619d0a0 fffffff7 c134fd04 00000036 8718dfa4
8718df88
df80: 80082990 800826c4 00000000 0004537c 2aad66d0 2aad5274 00000000
8718dfa8
dfa0: 8001fd00 8008295c 0004537c 2aad66d0 00000005 c134fd04 000ae5d8
00001220
dfc0: 0004537c 2aad66d0 2aad5274 000b8808 0000004e 2aad66cc 2aadea7c
000ae5d8
dfe0: 2aadebec 7e987c3c 2aad44f8 2ac811e4 80000010 00000005 b7118d2a
f2641dfd
Backtrace:
[<7f00bba0>] (exit_exception_table+0x0/0x70 [dm_snapshot]) from
[<7f00bcb0>] (snapshot_dtr+0xa0/0xf4 [dm_snapshot])
[<7f00bc10>] (snapshot_dtr+0x0/0xf4 [dm_snapshot]) from [<8016791c>]
(dm_table_put+0x80/0xe4)
[<8016789c>] (dm_table_put+0x0/0xe4) from [<80166888>] (dm_put+0x6c/0xcc)
r7 = 8016AAB0 r6 = 00000000 r5 = 8ABC4460 r4 = 8EE355C0
[<8016681c>] (dm_put+0x0/0xcc) from [<8016a284>] (__hash_remove+0x88/0x9c)
r6 = 8718C000 r5 = 8ABC4460 r4 = 8CF55AA0
[<8016a1fc>] (__hash_remove+0x0/0x9c) from [<8016aaf4>]
(dev_remove+0x44/0x64)
r5 = 90B98000 r4 = 90B98000
[<8016aab0>] (dev_remove+0x0/0x64) from [<8016a888>] (ctl_ioctl+0x2e8/0x3a8)
r4 = 000AE5D8
[<8016a5a0>] (ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x3a8) from [<800826a8>] (do_ioctl+0x68/0x78)
[<80082640>] (do_ioctl+0x0/0x78) from [<80082920>] (vfs_ioctl+0x268/0x298)
r5 = 000AE5D8 r4 = 8619D0A0
[<800826b8>] (vfs_ioctl+0x0/0x298) from [<80082990>] (sys_ioctl+0x40/0x60)
r7 = 00000036 r6 = C134FD04 r5 = FFFFFFF7 r4 = 8619D0A0
[<80082950>] (sys_ioctl+0x0/0x60) from [<8001fd00>]
(ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
r6 = 2AAD5274 r5 = 2AAD66D0 r4 = 0004537C
Code: e59c4000 ea000002 eb418145 e1a0c004 (e5944000)
So fdisk was the only way to read these partitions size - well, I also
did "dd if=partition of=/dev/null" to measure the size :)
>>>> and 3 (how to copy it all over network, if possible, using SSH only).
>>> netcat and dd over forwarded port
>> Thanks for the idea.
>
> dd if=/dev/$vg/$lv bs=32M |
> buffer -S 10m -s 512k |
> gzip -1 |
> ssh -T $target -- \
> "gunzip |
> buffer -s 512k |
> dd bs=32M of=/dev/$t_vg/$t_lv"
>
I found netcat extremely slow (only 0.5-1 MB/s), perhaps same would be
with SSH.
As I use iSCSI, I used such approach:
600 MHz ARM SAN <-iSCSI-> server <-iSCSI> 600 MHz Pentium mobile SAN
On "server" I just used:
dd if=iSCSI-ARM/part of=iSCSI-Pentium/part
With source/destination being the same size.
It was way faster, 6-8 MB/s (I had lots of gigabytes to copy).
Normal transfer rates between SAN <iSCSI> server are about 20-40 MB/s;
perhaps it was that slow also because of an earlier kernel oops and a
couple of lvm processes in "D" state.
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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