Trust Red Hat :) At least their approach should be safer. Of course, you can raise a docu bug but RHEL7 is in such phase that it might not be fixed unless this is found in v8.
Best Regards, Strahil NikolovOn Oct 2, 2019 05:43, jeremy_tourvi...@hotmail.com wrote: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/lvmthin.7.html > Command to repair a thin pool: > lvconvert --repair VG/ThinPoolLV > > Repair performs the following steps: > > 1. Creates a new, repaired copy of the metadata. > lvconvert runs the thin_repair command to read damaged metadata from > the existing pool metadata LV, and writes a new repaired copy to the > VG's pmspare LV. > > 2. Replaces the thin pool metadata LV. > If step 1 is successful, the thin pool metadata LV is replaced with > the pmspare LV containing the corrected metadata. The previous thin > pool metadata LV, containing the damaged metadata, becomes visible > with the new name ThinPoolLV_tmetaN (where N is 0,1,...). > > If the repair works, the thin pool LV and its thin LVs can be > activated, and the LV containing the damaged thin pool metadata can > be removed. It may be useful to move the new metadata LV (previously > pmspare) to a better PV. > > If the repair does not work, the thin pool LV and its thin LVs are > lost. > > This info seems to conflict with Red Hat advice. Red Hat says if metadat > volume is full don't run a lvconvert --repair operation. Now I am confused. > I am familiar with LVM and comfortable with it but this is my first time > trying to repair thin LVM. The concepts of a metadata volume are new to me. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/FFN3HWUQVRPFSMXHECNJLJOFNF5ODAT6/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/NFM7OW2IPDQYOJ7F7FET3E2OWEEHPWNS/
