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Bug 1475975

Summary: LVM cache: warning about loosing redundancy is incorrect.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jonathan Earl Brassow <jbrassow>
Component: lvm2Assignee: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
lvm2 sub component: Cache Logical Volumes QA Contact: cluster-qe <cluster-qe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA Docs Contact:
Severity: unspecified    
Priority: unspecified CC: agk, cmarthal, heinzm, jbrassow, msnitzer, prajnoha, rbednar, zkabelac
Version: 7.3   
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 15:20:44 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jonathan Earl Brassow 2017-07-27 16:51:25 UTC
Was testing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179970#c19 and came across a strange error:

"WARNING: Data redundancy is lost with writeback caching of raid logical volume!"

This would be correct if my cacheDataLV and cacheMetaLV were not also RAID LVs, but they are.

This:
        if (lv_is_raid(origin_lv) &&
            first_seg(seg->pool_lv)->cache_mode == CACHE_MODE_WRITEBACK)
                log_warn("WARNING: Data redundancy is lost with writeback "
                         "caching of raid logical volume!");
should probably make sure that the component devices of the cachepool are not RAID before printing the warning

Comment 3 Zdenek Kabelac 2017-11-27 11:39:06 UTC
Switched to: "could be lost"

https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2017-November/msg00086.html


Recognizing 'exact' level of lost resilience is ATM beyond code capabilities - but a more explaining message may arrive in future.

Comment 5 Corey Marthaler 2017-12-09 00:08:25 UTC
Fix verified in the latest rpms.

3.10.0-811.el7.x86_64

lvm2-2.02.176-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
lvm2-libs-2.02.176-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
lvm2-cluster-2.02.176-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
lvm2-lockd-2.02.176-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
lvm2-python-boom-0.8.1-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:15:40 CST 2017
cmirror-2.02.176-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
device-mapper-1.02.145-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
device-mapper-libs-1.02.145-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
device-mapper-event-1.02.145-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.145-5.el7    BUILT: Wed Dec  6 04:13:07 CST 2017
device-mapper-persistent-data-0.7.3-2.el7    BUILT: Tue Oct 10 04:00:07 CDT 2017



[root@host-117 ~]# lvs -a -o +devices
  LV                            VG            Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta% Cpy%Sync Devices
  [lvol0_pmspare]               cache_sanity  ewi-------  12.00m                                   /dev/sda1(23)
  smallK_cache                  cache_sanity  Cwi---C---  52.00k                                   smallK_cache_cdata(0)
  [smallK_cache_cdata]          cache_sanity  Cwi---r---  52.00k                                   smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_0(0),smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_0] cache_sanity  Iwi---r---  52.00k                                   /dev/sdf1(3)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_1] cache_sanity  Iwi---r---  52.00k                                   /dev/sdg1(3)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rmeta_0]  cache_sanity  ewi---r---  12.00k                                   /dev/sdf1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rmeta_1]  cache_sanity  ewi---r---  12.00k                                   /dev/sdg1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta]          cache_sanity  ewi---r---  12.00m                                   smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_0(0),smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_0] cache_sanity  Iwi---r---  12.00m                                   /dev/sdf1(19)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_1] cache_sanity  Iwi---r---  12.00m                                   /dev/sdg1(19)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rmeta_0]  cache_sanity  ewi---r---  12.00k                                   /dev/sdf1(16)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rmeta_1]  cache_sanity  ewi---r---  12.00k                                   /dev/sdg1(16)
  smallK_origin                 cache_sanity  rwi-a-r---  80.00k                          100.00   smallK_origin_rimage_0(0),smallK_origin_rimage_1(0)
  [smallK_origin_rimage_0]      cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  80.00k                                   /dev/sda1(3)
  [smallK_origin_rimage_1]      cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  80.00k                                   /dev/sde1(3)
  [smallK_origin_rmeta_0]       cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                   /dev/sda1(0)
  [smallK_origin_rmeta_1]       cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                   /dev/sde1(0)

[root@host-117 ~]# lvconvert --yes --type cache --cachepool cache_sanity/smallK_cache cache_sanity/smallK_origin
  Logical volume cache_sanity/smallK_origin is now cached.

[root@host-117 ~]# lvs -a -o +devices
  LV                             VG            Attr       LSize   Pool           Origin                Data%  Meta% Cpy%Sync Devices
  [lvol0_pmspare]                cache_sanity  ewi-------  12.00m                                                            /dev/sda1(23)
  [smallK_cache]                 cache_sanity  Cwi---C---  52.00k                                      0.00   0.39  0.00     smallK_cache_cdata(0)
  [smallK_cache_cdata]           cache_sanity  Cwi-aor---  52.00k                                                   100.00   smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_0(0),smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_1(0)  
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_0]  cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  52.00k                                                            /dev/sdf1(3)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rimage_1]  cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  52.00k                                                            /dev/sdg1(3)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rmeta_0]   cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sdf1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cdata_rmeta_1]   cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sdg1(0)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta]           cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00m                                                   100.00   smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_0(0),smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_1(0)  
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_0]  cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  12.00m                                                            /dev/sdf1(19)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rimage_1]  cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  12.00m                                                            /dev/sdg1(19)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rmeta_0]   cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sdf1(16)
  [smallK_cache_cmeta_rmeta_1]   cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sdg1(16)
  smallK_origin                  cache_sanity  Cwi-a-C---  80.00k [smallK_cache] [smallK_origin_corig] 0.00   0.39  0.00     smallK_origin_corig(0)
  [smallK_origin_corig]          cache_sanity  rwi-aoC---  80.00k                                                   100.00   smallK_origin_corig_rimage_0(0),smallK_origin_corig_rimage_1(0)
  [smallK_origin_corig_rimage_0] cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  80.00k                                                            /dev/sda1(3)
  [smallK_origin_corig_rimage_1] cache_sanity  iwi-aor---  80.00k                                                            /dev/sde1(3)
  [smallK_origin_corig_rmeta_0]  cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sda1(0)
  [smallK_origin_corig_rmeta_1]  cache_sanity  ewi-aor---  12.00k                                                            /dev/sde1(0)

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 15:20:44 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0853