[linux-lvm] Recovering from lvm thin metadata exhaustion

[Dean Hamstead]

I gave up and rebuilt. But thankfully the data was backed up 
sufficiently.

Dean

On 2018-07-16 07:10, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> Il 15-07-2018 21:47 Zdenek Kabelac ha scritto:
> Hi Zdenek,
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Try to open BZ like i.e. this one:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532071
> 
> this is quite scary, especially considering no updates on the ticket
> in recent months. How did the OP solve the issue?
> 
>> Add all possible details (lvm2 version, kernel version, lvm2 
>> metadata,...)
>> and xz compressed dump  of _meta0  device.
>> There is small hope that some metadata can be possibly restored with
>> 'hand-extension' of thin_repair tool.
> 
> Any insight on what went wrong (yes, I know, metadata space was
> exausted - but it should not result in total volume loss, right)?
> 
> Thanks.