Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:57 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 5:43 AM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> It's possibly stale information, back from when the installer first >> added support for LVM thinp. I forget if it was someone on the >> installer or LVM team, but I can

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 10:25 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 11/28/20 4:13 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM Sreyan Chakravarty > > wrote: > > > >> Where exactly are you getting this from ? > >> > >> I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always,

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 12:28 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > > With the release of F33. > > https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33/ I have no idea how BTRFS is a better alternative. The snapshotting is so complex, I haven't been able to get it working as of yet. -- Regards, Sreyan C

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 12:37 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Pretty low. If e2fsk is happy with it, then it should be good. > Although that doesn't verify that the file data is all there, so there > is still potential for hitting an I/O error somewhere during the > process. But trying won't hurt a

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/28/20 10:57 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb > wrote: I don't see why it would be any different on a thin LV as long as the swap file is fully provisioned.  It's still just a fixed set of blocks on the hard driv

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I don't see why it would be any different on a thin LV as long as the > swap file is fully provisioned. It's still just a fixed set of blocks > on the hard drive. > I need some advice. I have checked the filesystem with e2fsck, and it rep

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 5:43 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > It's possibly stale information, back from when the installer first > added support for LVM thinp. I forget if it was someone on the > installer or LVM team, but I can't find any reference. The installer, > to this day, creates swap on a con

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/28/20 4:13 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Where exactly are you getting this from ? I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always, excluding this crash. It's possibly stale information, back from when the in

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:54 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > Where exactly are you getting this from ? > > I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always, > excluding this crash. It's possibly stale information, back from when the installer first added support for LVM th

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 11:22 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > Then I suggest backing up whatever you need to save and doing a > > reinstall. There is a thin LV option you can select in the installer, > > although I think btrfs is pro

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 28/11/2020 13:52, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 AM Samuel Sieb mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: Then I suggest backing up whatever you need to save and doing a reinstall.  There is a thin LV option you can select in the installer, although I think btrfs

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 4:48 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > You can't have a swapfile on a file system that's on an LVM thin volume. > Where exactly are you getting this from ? I have been using swap on LVM thin volume pretty much up around always, excluding this crash.

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Then I suggest backing up whatever you need to save and doing a > reinstall. There is a thin LV option you can select in the installer, > although I think btrfs is probably the better option going forward. > Is BTRFS stable ? I thought tha

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 7:45 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > Hi, > > I have migrated to thin pools using partclone. > > But now that I am using thin pools my system is completely unstable. > > My swap is not activated : > > swapon[1004]: swapon: /fedora.swap: read swap header failed > systemd[1]:

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/27/20 2:13 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 6:28 AM Samuel Sieb > wrote: That is a serious problem.  Something went really wrong.  Since you have very recent backups, I suggest restarting this process again. I no longer have those

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 6:28 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > That is a serious problem. Something went really wrong. Since you have > very recent backups, I suggest restarting this process again. > I no longer have those backups. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty _

Re: System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

On 11/26/20 6:44 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: In short my system has gone to hell. This all started when I did a fstrim like this: sudo fstrim -v / And it returned an input/output error. That is a serious problem. Something went really wrong. Since you have very recent backups, I suggest

System completely unstable after migrating to thin pools

Hi, I have migrated to thin pools using partclone. But now that I am using thin pools my system is completely unstable. My swap is not activated : swapon[1004]: swapon: /fedora.swap: read swap header failed systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Swap process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION sy