Dne 16. 09. 20 v 0:32 Gionatan Danti napsal(a):
Il 2020-09-15 20:34 Zdenek Kabelac ha scritto:
Dne 14. 09. 20 v 23:44 Gionatan Danti napsal(a):
Hi all,
I am testing lvmcache with VDO and I have issue with devices block size.
The big & slow VDO device is on top of a 4-disk MD RAID 10 device (itself
on top of dm-integrity). Over the VDO device I created a thinpool and a
thinvol [1]. When adding the cache device to the volume group via vgextend,
I get an error stating "Devices have inconsistent logical block sizes (4096
and 512)." [2]
Now, I know why the error shows and what i means. However, I don't know how
to force the cache device to act as a 4k sector device, and/if this is
really required to cache a VDO device.
My current workaround is to set VDO with --emulate512=enabled, but this can
be suboptimal and it is not recommended.
Any idea on what I am doing wrong?
Hi
LVM currently does not support mixing devices of different sector sizes within
a single VG as it brings lot of troubles we have not yet clear vision what
to do with all of them.
Hi Zdenek, yes, I understand. What surprised me is that lvmvdo *can* be
combined with caching, and it does not suffer from this issue. Can you
elaborate on why it works in this case?
Also this combination of provisioned devices is not advised - since
you are combining 2 kind of devices on top of each other and it can be
a big problem
to solve recovery case.
True.
On lvm2 side we do not allow to use 'VDO LV' as backend for thin-pool device.
I noticed it. However, from what I can read on RedHat docs, thinpool over VDO
device should be perfectly fine (the other way around, not so much).
You've most likely found the bug and this should be likely disable
(and enabled only with some force option).
Problem is, when such device stack is used for XFS - where the 'geometry'
changes, but for some other it's not a big issue (i.e. ext4).
So if you already hit some problem - feel free to open upstream BZ for this issue.
Zdenek
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