Hello! I continued tests of lvm-multisnapshots and possible found a bug. Here is the sequence of my actions: 1. Built vanilla kernel 2.6.33.1 with patches from http://people.redhat.com/mpatocka/patches/kernel/new-snapshots/r16/ applied. The next lines were added to the config: CONFIG_DM_MULTISNAPSHOT=m CONFIG_DM_MULTISNAPSHOT_MIKULAS=m CONFIG_DM_MULTISNAPSHOT_DANIEL=m Installed the new kernel on Debian Lenny and rebooted. 2. Origin and snapshot volumes were created on a 4-terabyte disk with RAID 0. The command was used: # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb \ /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde 3. The next commands were used to set up multisnapshots: # modprobe dm-store-mikulas # modprobe dm-multisnapshot # pvcreate /dev/md0 Physical volume "/dev/md0" successfully created # vgcreate vg1 /dev/md0 Volume group "vg1" successfully created # lvcreate --size=1T --name=lv1 vg1 Logical volume "lv1" created # lvcreate --size=1T --name=lv2 vg1 Logical volume "lv2" created # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/vg1-lv2 bs=4096 count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 4194304 bytes (4,2 MB) copied, 0,00279046 s, 1,5 GB/s # echo 0 `blockdev --getsz /dev/mapper/vg1-lv1` multisnapshot \ /dev/mapper/vg1-lv1 /dev/mapper/vg1-lv2 32 0 mikulas 0| dmsetup create ms # dmsetup status /dev/mapper/ms 0 2147483648 multisnapshot 5 -1 - 4194304 128 128 0 How we can see the multisnapshot was created with the error -1 (EPERM) dmesg info: [71648.347171] device-mapper: multisnapshot: check_invalid: access to invalid part of the device: 1, size 20000 [71648.347228] Pid: 3810, comm: dmsetup Not tainted 2.6.33.1-multisnapshot #1 [71648.347230] Call Trace: [71648.347243] [<f89c7070>] ? check_invalid+0x52/0x62 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347248] [<f89c71c9>] ? dm_multisnap_duplicate_block+0x2a/0x20b [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347252] [<f89cbb6b>] ? dm_bufio_read+0xb/0x46 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347255] [<f89c6699>] ? dm_multisnap_alloc_blocks+0x36a/0x44a [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347259] [<f89c678e>] ? dm_multisnap_alloc_make_block+0x15/0x32 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347263] [<f89c6a80>] ? dm_multisnap_extend_bitmaps+0x63/0x380 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347269] [<c10246f0>] ? __wake_up+0x29/0x39 [71648.347271] [<c10246f0>] ? __wake_up+0x29/0x39 [71648.347275] [<f89c5246>] ? dm_multisnap_mikulas_lock_acquired+0x17a/0x1b3 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347279] [<f89c5faa>] ? dm_multisnap_mikulas_init+0xab6/0xb34 [dm_store_mikulas] [71648.347283] [<f89ab19d>] ? multisnap_origin_ctr+0x5dd/0x94d [dm_multisnapshot] [71648.347295] [<f854238e>] ? realloc_argv+0x4f/0x5b [dm_mod] [71648.347300] [<f85423e6>] ? dm_split_args+0x4c/0xd5 [dm_mod] [71648.347305] [<f8542cba>] ? dm_table_add_target+0x166/0x1dd [dm_mod] [71648.347310] [<f85445da>] ? table_load+0x1c5/0x1d7 [dm_mod] [71648.347314] [<f8545004>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x189/0x1c9 [dm_mod] [71648.347319] [<f8544415>] ? table_load+0x0/0x1d7 [dm_mod] [71648.347324] [<f8544e7b>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x1c9 [dm_mod] [71648.347327] [<c10bc079>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x1c/0x7d [71648.347330] [<c10bc5fd>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x46e/0x4a9 [71648.347333] [<c11005e8>] ? security_file_permission+0xc/0xd [71648.347336] [<c10b12ba>] ? do_sync_read+0x0/0xe0 [71648.347340] [<c101cb13>] ? do_page_fault+0x26a/0x280 [71648.347342] [<c10bc679>] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x58 [71648.347345] [<c1002e98>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Important: creation of volumes of lesser size, 300 Mb each for instance, caused no errors. Also I'd like to ask: could anyone say where it is possible to find the information and examples of using "lvm" tool for driving multisnapshots? -- Best wishes, Mikhail Klepachevskyy -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
