Re: Removing lvmcache fails

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> Dne 21. 09. 20 v 10:51 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk napsal(a):
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I have an ssd hooked up to my system to do some caching of the raid-6 array.
>> Now, that SSD isn't very new and has started developing some smart errors, so I
>> thought I'd just remove it and find a nice recycle bin for it. However, this
>> fails.
> 
> Hmm - cache isn't yet very easy to use once you start to have faulty devices
> in your device stack

Well, that's why I want to replace it ;)

>> This is Debian Buster (latest) with kernel 5.4 and lvm 2.03.02(2)
>> 
>> Any idea how to get rid of this?
>> 
>> # lvconvert --uncache data/data
>>    Unknown feature in status: 8 2488/262144 128 819192/819200 57263288 35277148
>>    19955332 9916661 0 1 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2
>>    migration_threshold 2048 smq 0 rw -
> 
> 
> However since you have 'writethrough' cache mode - it should be possible to
> use  'lvconvert --uncache --force'

# lvconvert --uncache --force data/data
  Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57470386 35323243 19987362 9940326 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 smq 0 rw -
  Flushing 1 blocks for cache data/data.
  Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57439248 35307947 19981793 9938992 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 cleaner 0 rw -
  Flushing 1 blocks for cache data/data.
  Unknown feature in status: 8 2484/262144 128 819198/819200 57439248 35307947 19981793 9938992 0 0 1 3 metadata2 writethrough no_discard_passdown 2 migration_threshold 2048 cleaner 0 rw -
(et cetera et cetera ad infinitum)

> But I'm somehow confused how you can have any dirty blocks in this case ??

So am I

> lvm2 2.03.02 version was somewhat experimental release - so I've recommend
> something newer  - which will also properly parse newer status output from
> newer kernel dm-cache module.

Well, that's weird - debian is usually rather conservative on its packages in a stable release. Are you sure?

I also updated to a backported kernel 5.7 without any change.

Vennlig hilsen

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