On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 12:30:01AM +0000, Cyclic Group Z_1 wrote: > The lvmraid documentation says the following: "To work around some > limitations, it is possible to remove integrity from the LV, make the > change, then add integrity again. (Integrity metadata would need to > initialized when added again.) ... The following are not yet permitted > on RAID LVs with integrity: lvreduce, pvmove, snapshots, splitmirror, > raid syncaction commands, raid rebuild." Does this mean that RAID > rebuilds can only be done with integrity temporarily turned off?
It refers specifically to running the command "lvchange --rebuild". I'm not entirely sure how important that command is, but I'd be happy to hear more about its usefulness. > This seems risky given that rebuilds are often when RAID arrays undergo the > most stress and are thus vulnerable to failures/errors (namely, for > parity RAID). Additionally, is the suggested workaround for snapshots to > temporarily turn off integrity when taking/using snapshots? Thank you! Snapshots were recently enabled: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=commit;h=fd6e113bba5fed5ee41152cde33220294c24ce2b Dave _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
