On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 9:41 AM Abhishek Agarwal
<mragarwal.develo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> These are not different LVM processes. The container process is using the LVM 
> binary that the node itself has. We have achieved this by using scripts that 
> point to the same lvm binary that is used by the node.
>
> Configmap(~shell script) used for the same has the following contents where 
> `/host` refers to the root directory of the node:
>
> get_bin_path: |
>   #!/bin/sh
>   bin_name=$1
>   if [ -x /host/bin/which ]; then
>     echo $(chroot /host /bin/which $bin_name | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
>   elif [ -x /host/usr/bin/which ]; then
>     echo $(chroot /host /usr/bin/which $bin_name | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
>   else
>     $(chroot /host which $bin_name | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
>   fi
>
> lvcreate: |
>   #!/bin/sh
>   path=$(/sbin/lvm-eg/get_bin_path "lvcreate")
>   chroot /host $path "$@"
>
> Also, the above logs in the pastebin link have errors because the vg lock has 
> not been acquired and hence creation commands will fail. Once the lock is 
> acquired, the `strace -f` command gives the following output being stuck. 
> Check out this link for full details -> https://pastebin.com/raw/DwQfdmr8
>
> P.S: We at OpenEBS are trying to provide lvm storage to cloud native 
> workloads with the help of kubernetes CSI drivers and since all these drivers 
> run as pods and help dynamic provisioning of kubernetes volumes(storage) for 
> the application, the lvm commands needs to be run from inside the pod. 
> Reference -> https://github.com/openebs/lvm-localpv

For using LVM in Kubernetes, why not toplvm?
https://github.com/topolvm/topolvm

The design looks right, running lvm commands on the host:
https://github.com/topolvm/topolvm/blob/main/docs/design.md

Nir

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