[lvm-devel] liblvm IOCTL/sysfs interface

[Sandeep K Sinha]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:04 +0530, Sandeep K Sinha wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I  would like to know if there is any means currently to know the complete
>> geometry of a LVM volume.
>> e.g, If a volume has 3 PV(targets).
>>
>> So, we should be able to extract some information like.
>>
>> Name of Volume.
>> Name of Volume Group.
>> Name, Range and size for each of the Physical devices involved.
>>
>> I execute the following steps.
>>
>> 1. pvcreate /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6
>> 2. vgcreate vg /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6
>> 3. lvcreate vg -L 5G
>>
>> So, I should see the information like.
>>
>> lvol0
>> vg
>> target1 - /dev/sda5 ----  0 -- 10000 ( BEGIN  -- Length )
>> target2 - /dev/sda6 ----  10001 -- 4000
>>
>>
>> We do maintain these informations inside the kernel, We should atleast
>> have an ioctl or sysfs based interface to extract
>> these information.
>>
>
> Did you try "dmsetup table"?  You can strace this and/or examine the
> source code - upstream git repo (see tools/dmsetup.c and
> liblvm/libdevmapper.h):
> git://sources.redhat.com/git/lvm2
>

Yes, I did and it worked for me.

> There is also the "lvdisplay --maps" and "pvdisplay --maps" but it
> sounds like you're wanting more of what dmsetup provides.
>
>> Liblvm is under development, won't it be of a good use to provide such
>> a functionality.
>>
>
> Thank you for the suggestion and I will think about this some more.
> Even though we have the ability to provide this information today as
> shown by the above commands, it may be useful to also provide this in
> liblvm in a more convenient API, such as lvm_lv_get_pe_layout((), which
> would return a list of information as provided above.  With simple
> linear LVs this is straightforward but a bit more complex with snaps and
> mirrors, and stacked LVs.
>

Thats very true. Implementing it for linear LV's can be easy as
compared to others.
But I think we already have a implementation of dmsetup table for
snaps, mirrors can
can use for the same.


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Regards,
Sandeep.





 	
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