[linux-lvm] Difficulties with creating RAID1 LV

Anatoly Pugachev matorola at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 14:56:22 UTC 2015


Tried same setup on rhel7 :

[root at rhel7 ~]# rpm -q lvm2
lvm2-2.02.115-3.el7.x86_64

[root at rhel7 ~]# pvcreate  /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
  Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
  Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created

[root at rhel7 ~]# vgcreate  vmhost-vg  /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
  Volume group "vmhost-vg" successfully created

[root at rhel7 ~]# lvcreate --verbose --type raid1 --mirrors 1 --extents 1 -n
testlv vmhost-vg
    Finding volume group "vmhost-vg"
    Archiving volume group "vmhost-vg" metadata (seqno 1).
    Creating logical volume testlv
    Creating logical volume testlv_rimage_0
    Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_0
    Creating logical volume testlv_rimage_1
    Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_1
    activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only
host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 table (253:2)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (253:2)
    Clearing metadata area of vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0
    Initializing 512 B of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0" with
value 0.
    Removing vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (253:2)
    activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only
host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 table (253:2)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (253:2)
    Clearing metadata area of vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1
    Initializing 512 B of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1" with
value 0.
    Removing vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (253:2)
    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vmhost-vg" (seqno 3).
    Activating logical volume "testlv" exclusively.
    activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only
host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 table (253:2)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (253:2)
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0 table (253:3)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0 (253:3)
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 table (253:4)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (253:4)
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1 table (253:5)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1 (253:5)
    Creating vmhost--vg-testlv
    Loading vmhost--vg-testlv table (253:6)
    Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv (253:6)
    Monitoring vmhost-vg/testlv
    Wiping known signatures on logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv"
    Initializing 4.00 KiB of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv" with value 0.
  Logical volume "testlv" created.

[root at rhel7 ~]# lvs -a vmhost-vg
  LV                VG        Attr       LSize Pool Origin Data%  Meta%
Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  testlv            vmhost-vg rwi-a-r---
4.00m                                    100.00
  [testlv_rimage_0] vmhost-vg iwi-aor---
4.00m
  [testlv_rimage_1] vmhost-vg iwi-aor---
4.00m
  [testlv_rmeta_0]  vmhost-vg ewi-aor---
4.00m
  [testlv_rmeta_1]  vmhost-vg ewi-aor--- 4.00m


[root at rhel7 ~]# dmsetup status
vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1: 0 8192 linear
vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0: 0 8192 linear
vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1: 0 8192 linear
vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0: 0 8192 linear
vmhost--vg-testlv: 0 8192 raid raid1 2 AA 8192/8192 idle 0

[root at rhel7 ~]# dmsetup table vmhost--vg-testlv
0 8192 raid raid1 3 0 region_size 1024 2 253:2 253:3 253:4 253:5



On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:48 AM, MegaBrutal <megabrutal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Nowadays it's difficult to create raid1 LVs, or converting linear LVs
> to raid1. If I try hard, once it succeeds, but it's not supposed to
> work like this. I'm on Ubuntu Vivid. I've never experienced this
> before, but I didn't create much raid1 LVs before I added plus PVs.
> But I don't remember ever having this problem, so whatever it is,
> probably it's introduced with Vivid.
>
>
> Case 1: Creating raid1 LV
>
> root at vmhost:~# lvcreate --verbose --type raid1 --mirrors 1 --extents 1
> --name testlv vmhost-vg
>     DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed.
>     Setting logging type to disk
>     Finding volume group "vmhost-vg"
>     Archiving volume group "vmhost-vg" metadata (seqno 112).
>     Creating logical volume testlv
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rimage_0
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_0
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rimage_1
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_1
>     activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking
> only host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 table (252:122)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (252:122)
>     Clearing metadata area of vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0
>     Initializing 512 B of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0"
> with value 0.
>     Removing vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (252:122)
>     activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking
> only host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 table (252:122)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (252:122)
>     Clearing metadata area of vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1
>     Initializing 512 B of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_1"
> with value 0.
>     Removing vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (252:122)
>     Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vmhost-vg" (seqno 114).
>     Activating logical volume "testlv" exclusively.
>     activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking
> only host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 table (252:122)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 (252:122)
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0 table (252:123)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_0 (252:123)
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 table (252:124)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_1 (252:124)
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1 table (252:125)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv_rimage_1 (252:125)
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv table (252:126)
>   device-mapper: reload ioctl on  failed: Device or resource busy
>     Removing vmhost--vg-testlv (252:126)
>   Failed to activate new LV.
>     Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vmhost-vg" (seqno 115).
>
> Result: nothing is actually created according to "lvs -a".
>
>
> Case 2: Create linear LV and then convert it to raid1
>
> root at vmhost:~# lvcreate --verbose --extents 1 --name testlv vmhost-vg
>     DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed.
>     Setting logging type to disk
>     Finding volume group "vmhost-vg"
>     Archiving volume group "vmhost-vg" metadata (seqno 115).
>     Creating logical volume testlv
>     Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vmhost-vg" (seqno 116).
>     Activating logical volume "testlv".
>     activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking
> only host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv
>     Loading vmhost--vg-testlv table (252:126)
>     Resuming vmhost--vg-testlv (252:126)
>     Wiping known signatures on logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv"
>     Initializing 4.00 KiB of logical volume "vmhost-vg/testlv" with value
> 0.
>     Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vmhost-vg" (seqno 116).
>   Logical volume "testlv" created
>
> root at vmhost:~# lvs -a | grep testlv
>   testlv                    vmhost-vg -wi-a-----   4.00m
>
> root at vmhost:~# lvconvert --verbose --type raid1 --mirrors 1
> vmhost-vg/testlv
>     DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed.
>     Archiving volume group "vmhost-vg" metadata (seqno 116).
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_0
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rmeta_1
>     Creating logical volume testlv_rimage_0
>     activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking
> only host tags for vmhost-vg/testlv_rmeta_0
>     Creating vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0
>   device-mapper: create ioctl on vmhost--vg-testlv_rmeta_0 failed:
> Device or resource busy
>   Failed to activate localy testlv_rmeta_0 for clearing
>
> root at vmhost:~# lvs -a | grep testlv
>   testlv                    vmhost-vg -wi-a-----   4.00m
>   testlv_rimage_1           vmhost-vg -wi-------   4.00m
>   testlv_rmeta_0            vmhost-vg -wi-------   4.00m
>   testlv_rmeta_1            vmhost-vg -wi-------   4.00m
>
> Result: mirror and meta LVs are created as distinct linear LVs and are
> not bound together to form a raid1 LV.
>
>
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