[linux-lvm] Repair thin pool

[M.H. Tsai]

Hi,

Let we review your question again. You had run "lvconvert --repair",
so now the volume pool_nas_tmeta0 is the original metadata (if you
didn't swap the metadata again). You can run thin_check and thin_dump
on pool_nas_tmeta0 to know why thin_repair doesn't work.

thin_check /dev/mapper/vgg145155121036c-pool_nas_tmeta0 > thin_check.log 2>&1
thin_dump /dev/mapper/vgg145155121036c-pool_nas_tmeta0 -o thin_dump.xml -r


Ming-Hung Tsai

2016-02-05 9:21 GMT+08:00 Mars <kirapangzi at gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> We're using Centos 7.0 with lvm 2.02.105 and met a problem as underlying:
> After a electricity powerdown in the datacenter room, thin provision volumes
> came up with wrong states:
>
> [root at storage ~]# lvs -a
>   dm_report_object: report function failed for field data_percent
>   LV                              VG               Attr       LSize   Pool
> Origin           Data%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
>   DailyBuild                      vgg145155121036c Vwi-d-tz--   5.00t
> pool_nas
>   dat                             vgg145155121036c Vwi-d-tz--  10.00t
> pool_nas
>   lvol0                           vgg145155121036c -wi-a-----  15.36g
>   [lvol3_pmspare]                 vgg145155121036c ewi-------  15.27g
>   market                          vgg145155121036c Vwi-d-tz--   3.00t
> pool_nas
>   pool_nas                        vgg145155121036c twi-a-tz--  14.90t
> 0.00
>   [pool_nas_tdata]                vgg145155121036c Twi-ao----  14.90t
>   [pool_nas_tmeta]                vgg145155121036c ewi-ao----  15.27g
>   share                           vgg145155121036c Vwi-d-tz--  10.00t
> pool_nas
>
>
>  the thin pool "pool_nas" and general lv "lvol0" are active, but thin
> provision volumes cannot be actived even with cmd "lvchange -ay
> thin_volume_name".
>
> To recover it, we tried following ways refer to these mail conversations:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/lvm/msg22629.html and
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lvm.general/14828.
>
> 1, USE: "lvconvert --repair vgg145155121036c/pool_nas"
> output as below and thin volumes still cannot be active.
> WARNING: If everything works, remove "vgg145155121036c/pool_nas_tmeta0".
> WARNING: Use pvmove command to move "vgg145155121036c/pool_nas_tmeta" on the
> best fitting PV.
>
> 2, USE manual repair steps:
> 2a: inactive thin pool.
> 2b: create a temp lv "metabak".
> 2c: swap the thin pool's metadata lv: "lvconvert --thinpool
> vgg145155121036c/pool_nas --poolmetadata metabak -y", only with "-y" option
> can submit the command.
> 2d: active temp lv "metabak" and create another bigger lv "metabak1".
> 2e: repair metadata: "thin_restore -i /dev/vgg145155121036c/metabak-o
> /dev/vgg145155121036c/metabak1", and got segment fault.
>
> So, is there any other way to recover this or some steps we do wrong?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Mars