Bug 1491609 - [RFE] Implement forcible volume removal for in-use volumes
Summary: [RFE] Implement forcible volume removal for in-use volumes
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Status: NEW
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Product: LVM and device-mapper
Classification: Community
Component: lvm2
Version: 2.02.174
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: LVM Team
QA Contact: cluster-qe
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Reported: 2017-09-14 09:19 UTC by Zdenek Kabelac
Modified: 2023-08-10 15:41 UTC (History)
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2017-09-14 09:19:23 UTC
Description of problem:

While users can use thin-pool with lots of thin LVs - there can be cases, where user may prefer to 'drop' some volumes to make space for other more important ones.  This is fine as long as 'low-prio' thin volumes are not use - but it's getting complicated for the case volumes is in use 'somewhere'.

The possible take on lvm2 side could be - to migrate such LV (no just thin) to a single segmented 'error'  LV -  which den gives  thin-pool change to drop conntent of such thinLV.

Once the 'error' LV gets unused - it can be easily lvremoved  - either later by user or some monitoring process (lvmpolld) - or any later 'lvcreate/lvconvert' my check & drop such LV appropriately flagged.

In practical implementation this is equivalent of using:
'dmsetup remove --force'.

Naive assumptions to be explored is - the reaction of mounted filesystem replaced with error device - in most cases I'd expect the filesystem will not kill the system - just stops itself...  but this needs to be validated...

As for users's API - ideas may range from adding flag option to even extra command...

'lvremove --force --atleastreplacewitherror vg/lv' 
to
'lverror  vg/lv'


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2.02.174

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Comment 1 Zdenek Kabelac 2018-03-29 13:23:57 UTC
I guess the inital good progress can be achieve with support for:


'lvconvert --type error|zero'

this can may simplify number of recovery operations.


This operation might be even support for VG with missing PV - as it does not present problem for PV allocation - and in practice it five lower-lever control for this case.


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