On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM Germano Veit Michel <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've finished developing the tools we would like to have to fix snapshot
> related issues.
>
> Piotr did an initial review in one of the patches, but there is still a
> lot of reviewing that needs to be done. Could you please review this
> series? https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/topic:snapshot-tools
> I'm specially concerned about 94366, I'm not sure that is the right way do
> to that.
>
> Note: there are some random CI failures on F28 that we are investigating
> in a different mail thread* , so with every rebase 1 to 3 patches fail.
> * [VDSM] TestMount.testSymlinkMount failing
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:43 PM Germano Veit Michel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> All passing CI and rebased to latest master.
>> Reviews are welcome.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:01 AM Germano Veit Michel <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 7:59 AM Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:49 AM Germano Veit Michel <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:56 PM Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:24 AM Germano Veit Michel <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I'm working an a tool (vdsm-tool update-volume) to make modifying
>>>>>> SD metadata easier and more importantly, safer. This is very useful to
>>>>>> recover from failed LSMs or snapshot issues.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > The plan is to use the VDSM API (modified by some of these patches)
>>>>>> and add a tool (vdsm-tool) that talks to the API and modifies the volumes
>>>>>> metadata as required by the user. Currently this is done manually, i.e.:
>>>>>> looking at MD_XXX tags, doing dd, sed and then dd back to the storage. 
>>>>>> Any
>>>>>> wrong argument (like a skip in place of a seek) can ruin the entire
>>>>>> metadata, so this tool can be quite handy.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > The code is not necessarily 100% finished yet, but I've been
>>>>>> testing this for some time and it seems ok from a functional point of 
>>>>>> view.
>>>>>> I'm just not sure everything I did (especially inside VDSM, example 
>>>>>> 94366)
>>>>>> is correct. Your comments on what can/should be improved are very welcome
>>>>>> at this point. Please see this series and help reviewing it.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/topic:update-volume+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
>>>>>> > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93258/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not a maintainer of vdsm.storage, but I can say that I'm missing
>>>>>> a high-level description of the change that you are suggesting, and
>>>>>> its motivation. When do you see a need to manually change the metadata
>>>>>> of volumes? Shouldn't we fix the bug that causes this need?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ohh, sorry. I thought it was obvious. This is for snapshot related
>>>>> issues. These bugs have been present for a while, they are fixed but new
>>>>> ones come up. In the end downstream support is constantly manually
>>>>> repairing chains. This is why this tool is needed. Both to make those
>>>>> changes safer and to save time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I personally have a deep resentment to a "force" flags - not just
>>>>>> here, but everywhere. It is never clear what is being forced. Some
>>>>>> things cannot or should not be forced.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nir already suggested to remove the force flag. I don't mind, the idea
>>>>> was just to keep the old behavior the same if the force flag is not used.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One last note: a CI+1 gives a positive psychological vibe to your
>>>>>> reviewer.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know. Most of them have CI+1. They keep randomly failing on
>>>>> FC28 (but EL7 succeeds) on every push.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We used to have a regression in iproute on Fedora few weeks ago. a
>>>> rebase on master may help. It is your responsibility to find why fc28
>>>> fails, as we cannot merge a patch that does not pass there.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll rebase them. Hopefully thats it.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And there is just one that is constantly failing, I even sent an email
>>>>> to this list ("Jenkins help") to try to better understand why, but no
>>>>> one replied yet. It seems to be complaining about an object not having a
>>>>> member, but the member is created at runtime (based on api schema).
>>>>>
>>>>
Today was my lucky day and CI didn't fail with those random errors on
umount. So all patches passed, please review:
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/topic:snapshot-tools
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