On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 08:57:07PM +0100, Dennis Schridde wrote: > On Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2020 20:30:51 CET David Teigland wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 08:06:41PM +0100, Dennis Schridde wrote: > > > How would you proceed to repair this cache? I can recreate it as a > > > cachepool, but first I need to gain back access to the data, i.e. get > > > into a state where I can --uncache. > > > > I know that cachevols do not yet work with lvconvert --repair, which uses > > cache_repair, but this must be another case where cache_repair is still > > needed. If this is writethough mode you should be able to simply drop the > > cache with lvconvert --splitcache and then recreate it. > > Sadly the cache is in writeback mode. > > Is my understanding correct that the cache itself is fine? It is just the > inability to clear the needs_check flag that is preventing me from using the > device? I suspect the cache itself is fine and we're just missing a way to clear that flag in the cache metadata. I'm looking for a workaround for that until we can sort out a complete fix. Dave _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
