Dne 20. 03. 23 v 17:37 lacsaP Patatetom napsal(a):
hi,
I come back to you with the memo mentioned :
https://github.com/patatetom/lvm-on-readonly-block-device
<https://github.com/patatetom/lvm-on-readonly-block-device>
I hope that it will allow you to better understand this problem of alteration
of the disk.
as I mentioned, LVM should normally/theoretically not touch the disk as long
as it is read-only, but what bothers me the most is the fact that I can't
"catch up" by correcting the new 6.1.15 kernel as I did before.
regards, lacsaP.
Le lun. 20 mars 2023 à 15:15, lacsaP Patatetom <patatetom@xxxxxxxxx
Hi
So I'm possibly finally starting to understand your problem here.
You are using your own patched kernel - where you were reverting
a32e236eb93e62a0f692e79b7c3c9636689559b9 linux kernel patch.
without likely understanding the consequences.
With kernel 6.X there is commit bdb7d420c6f6d2618d4c907cd7742c3195c425e2
modifying bio_check_ro() to return void - so your 'reverting' patch
is no longer usable the way it's been created.
From your github report it seems you are creating 'raid' across 3 sdb drives.
So with normal kernel - it happens to be that 'dm' drives are allowed to
bypass any 'read-only' protection set on a device.
So when you actually creating raid LV on loop0 & loop1 - deactivate, then you
make loop0 & loop1 read-only, active raid LV - then you can easily call
'mkfs' and it will normally work.
Raid device consist or '_rimage' & '_rmeta' LV per leg - where _rmeta is
metadata device updated with activation of raid LV.
So when your local 'revert' patch for 6.X kernel no longer works - there is no
surprise that your 'sdbX' drives are being actually modified - since ATM dm
targets are allowed to bypass read-only protection.
Since the reason for the 'bypass' (snapshot read-only activation) was fixed
5 years ago we should probably build some better way how to restore to
'read-only' protection - and allow to disable it only when user requests such
behavior due to use of old user-space tooling.
Regards
Zdenek
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