Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 770970
lvm2 man page and documentation for "normal" Allocation Policy needs to be improved
Last modified: 2013-01-08 02:11:42 EST
Description of problem: Documentation describing lvm2 "normal" allocation policy is not very comprehensive and needs to be improved in order to allow the reader to be fully aware about how the extents of a logical volume are allocated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: N/A Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual results: This is the only description available about how normal policy works in the man page: "The default for a volume group is normal which applies common-sense rules such as not placing parallel stripes on the same physical volume" In the Logical Volume Manager Administration guide the description is pretty the same. Expected results: A more comprehensive description about how extents are allocated throughout PVs possibly with details and examples. Additional info: The same applies to RHEL6 as well.
Yes, we can provide more-detailed documentation. To cover: - How the set of 'available' extents is generated (command line, existing space) - Outline of the process and how the --alloc policy affects it - Rules for 'parallel' extents (mirror, stripes) - Description of each policy Not to cover specific implementation details (i.e. the bits that are not guaranteed and might change from release to release)
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Verified the new "ALLOCATION" section in the lvm man page. "ALLOCATION When an operation needs to allocate Physical Extents for one or more Logical Volumes, the tools proceed as follows: [...] " lvm2-2.02.88-10.el5 BUILT: Tue Aug 28 01:21:59 CDT 2012
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. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0023.html