Bug 1329486 - [Doc] : Need to add brick configuration steps on a RHEL 6.8 setup to deal with RHEL 6.7 -> RHEL 6.8 lvchange regression
Summary: [Doc] : Need to add brick configuration steps on a RHEL 6.8 setup to deal wit...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Administration_Guide
Version: rhgs-3.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
: RHGS 3.1.3
Assignee: Anjana Suparna Sriram
QA Contact: Ambarish
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Blocks: 1329186
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-22 05:23 UTC by Ambarish
Modified: 2016-05-23 09:45 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1332166 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-23 09:45:40 UTC
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Description Ambarish 2016-04-22 05:23:07 UTC
Document URL: 
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https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3.1/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html#idp4069512

Section Number and Name:
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6.4.1. Creating Bricks Manually
 

Describe the issue: 
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There is a regression in the way zeroing the newly provisioned lvs works along with lvchange on a RHEL 6.8 setup.In order to disable zeroing,we either have to give the --zero n option during lvcreate itself or re-activate the LV.There's a 100% chance that the customer will hit a ~20% hit on any kind of writes that he does if the workaround steps aren't adhered to.

Quoting from the admin guide :

"lvchange --zero n VOLGROUP/thin_pool"

This works perfectly on a RHEL 6.7 testbed.

We need to add a note around this for RHEL 6.8 for the workaround for the regression.

 
Suggestions for improvement: 
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We need to get rid of "lvchange --zero n VOLGROUP/thin_pool" and add the --zero option to lvcreate itself :

lvcreate --thinpool vg1/thin_pool_1 --size 4T --chunksize 1280K --poolmetadatasize 16G --zero n

This should work and based on our testing,RHGS layered over RHEL 6.8 will be performant.


Additional information: 
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RHGS write regression bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324236 ---> CLOSED

lvchange regression bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328245

Comment 4 Manoj Pillai 2016-05-02 10:08:44 UTC
(In reply to Ambarish from comment #0)
> Document URL: 
> ------------
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3.1/html/
> Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html#idp4069512
> 

Also it would be good to update this section -- simplify it as described in bz #1228920.

Comment 8 Manoj Pillai 2016-05-05 12:31:38 UTC
looks good to me.

Comment 9 Anjana Suparna Sriram 2016-05-05 13:08:02 UTC
Based on Comment 8, moving the bug to ON_QA.

Comment 10 Ambarish 2016-05-08 10:22:13 UTC
Looks good to me as well.
Moving to Verified.

Comment 12 Anjana Suparna Sriram 2016-05-23 09:45:40 UTC
The Admin Guide is published live on the customer portal: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3.1/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html


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