[linux-lvm] Removing lvmcache fails
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
roy at karlsbakk.net
Mon Sep 21 10:01:22 UTC 2020
> Dne 21. 09. 20 v 10:51 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk napsal(a):
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have an ssd hooked up to my system to do some caching of the raid-6 array.
>> Now, that SSD isn't very new and has started developing some smart errors, so I
>> thought I'd just remove it and find a nice recycle bin for it. However, this
>> fails.
>
> Hmm - cache isn't yet very easy to use once you start to have faulty devices
> in your device stack
Well, that's why I want to replace it ;)
>> This is Debian Buster (latest) with kernel 5.4 and lvm 2.03.02(2)
>>
>> Any idea how to get rid of this?
>>
>> # lvconvert --uncache data/data
>> Unknown feature in status: 8 2488/262144 128 819192/819200 57263288 35277148
>> 19955332 9916661 0 1 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 smq 0 rw -
>
>
> However since you have 'writethrough' cache mode - it should be possible to
> use 'lvconvert --uncache --force'
# lvconvert --uncache --force data/data
Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57470386 35323243 19987362 9940326 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 smq 0 rw -
Flushing 1 blocks for cache data/data.
Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57439248 35307947 19981793 9938992 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 cleaner 0 rw -
Flushing 1 blocks for cache data/data.
Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57439248 35307947 19981793 9938992 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 cleaner 0 rw -
(et cetera et cetera ad infinitum)
> But I'm somehow confused how you can have any dirty blocks in this case ??
So am I
> lvm2 2.03.02 version was somewhat experimental release - so I've recommend
> something newer - which will also properly parse newer status output from
> newer kernel dm-cache module.
Well, that's weird - debian is usually rather conservative on its packages in a stable release. Are you sure?
I also updated to a backported kernel 5.7 without any change.
Vennlig hilsen
roy
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