On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Steeve McCauley wrote:
Is this change meant to add cluster support for merging? I had
been under the assumption that merging was already a feature of
snapshots.
My implementation has nothing to do with clustering.
I think there were some userspace programs for off-line merging of
inactive snapshots. My implementation works in kernel and can be used
while the snapshot is mounted.
What is the difference between the current implementation using
lvremove (which I assumed was where the COW blocks were merged back
into the original volume) and lvconvert as below? Why was this
functionality not kept in lvremove?
lvremove drops the snapshot and forgets its content. lvconvert -M copies
the snapshot to the origin (I'm now working on to let it automatically
drop the snapshot when the merging finishes).
Mikulas
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Hi
Here I release the first experimental implementation of snapshot merging.
Merging allows you to copy data in snapshot back to the origin device. Once
merging starts, it runs on background. When the merging finishes (you see
"0%" with "lvs" command), you should remove the merging snapshot with
lvremove command.
The userspace will still be changed, the kernel is already finished (there
are no known bugs in the kernel, I'm curious about the unknown ones :)
Merging is initiated with "lvconvert -M vg/lv_snapshot" command. When you
initiate merging, make sure that the origin device is not mounted. Snapshot
can be mounted while it's merging is initiated.
During merging, aby reads and writes to the origin device are identical to
accesses to the merging snapshots.
There may be multiple snapshots while one of them is being merged ---
exceptions in other snapshots are being allocated and there snapshots are
kept stable.
Don't try to concurrently merge more than one snapshot (the kernel refuses
to do it, the userspace tools don't know about it --- the userspace will be
rewritten anyway).
The patches are at:
http://people.redhat.com/mpatocka/patches/
The patches are for 2.6.26-rc4
(besides merging, there are some other bugfixes, I made for the kernel)
Mikulas
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