[linux-lvm] Reserve space for specific thin logical volumes

[matthew patton]

 > Step-by-step example:
 > - create a 40 GB thin volume and subtract its size from the thin pool (USED 40 GB, FREE 60 GB, REFER 0 GB);
 > - overwrite the entire volume (USED 40 GB, FREE 60 GB, REFER 40 GB);
 > - snapshot the volume (USED 40 GB, FREE 60 GB, REFER 40 GB);

And 3 other threads also take snapshots against the same volume, or frankly any other volume in the pool.
Since the next step (overwrite) hasn't happened yet or has written less than 20GB, all succeed.

 > - completely overwrite the original volume (USED 80 GB, FREE 20 GB, REFER 40 GB);

4 threads all try to write their respective 40GB. Afterall, they got the green-light since their snapshot was allowed to be taken.
Your thinLV blows up spectacularly.

 > - a new snapshot creation will fails (REFER is higher then FREE).
nobody cares about new snapshot creation attempts at this point.


> When do you decide it ?  (you need to see this is total race-lend)

exactly!