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Fedora Classroom - Creating Logical Volumes - Clint Savage - Saturday, December 6, 2008

-!- nirik changed the topic of #fedora-classroom to: Fedora IRC Classroom - Creating Logical Volumes - Clint Savage ( herlo ). See Communicate/IRC/Classroom for schedule and more information. 16:00
herlo Hi all, good to see you again. This is my second time in Fedora Classroom. Last time it was on SELinux Basics. This time, LVM Creation. 16:00
herlo I didn't prepare slides this time, but I do have a couple online documents that I'd like to use 16:01
herlo http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2/index.html <-- thanks IBM 16:01
herlo http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/logical_volume_manager.shtml <-- thanks to softpanorama 16:01
herlo so to start off, who knows what LVM stands for and it's basic purpose? 16:02
herlo the first word is not Linux 16:02
herlo <crickets /> 16:02
u0m3 LVM = Logical Volume Management or something like that 16:02
* nirik thinks thats Logical. 16:02
* MartinCo looks around the room 16:03
herlo yay! People are here :) 16:03
herlo okay, so here we go 16:03
MartinCo we were seeing what you would do next :) 16:03
herlo yes, it's Logical Volume Management 16:03
herlo the question I want to address today, is what does that mean for you as a user? 16:03
SSlater confusion? 16:04
herlo The basic purpose of LVM is to provide flexibility and extendability to your disks through management interface. There are a lot of uses of LVM, but I want to focus on the why. 16:04
delhage flexibility 16:04
herlo SSlater: I thought so too at first... 16:04
herlo so let's imagine a couple simple scenarios 16:05
herlo first, you have 3 disks, 2 are in a RAID (software or hardware, it doesn't matter) and you want to add an additional disk to the mix 16:05
herlo not to say this is necessarily normal, but it's something that could happen 16:06
herlo and plus, it's my example :) 16:06
herlo the RAID I have is constructed using software raid and it's built of usb sticks 16:06
aTypical Howdy 16:06
herlo just for fun mostly 16:06
herlo I call that RAID /dev/md0 16:06
herlo the RAID consists of /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 16:07
* icarus-c knocks the classroom door... 16:07
herlo and I have a physical partition /dev/sdd1 16:07
herlo so, let's just say that I'd like to take this mix of different types of disks and make them into a flexible device 16:08
herlo how to do that? 16:08
herlo I want one device, and I also want the flexibility of adding additional devices later on. This is one of the great strengths of LVM 16:08
herlo does this make sens? 16:08
herlo sense 16:08
MartinCo LVM, or (v. v. ugly) put a raid0 stripe over the md0, and sdc1 16:08
MartinCo herlo, indeed it does :) 16:09
icarus-c at least i understand 16:09
herlo MartinCo: pretty much, but it's more flexible than that 16:09
herlo and we'll get to those near the end of the presentation 16:09
herlo okay, so I'm going to refernece the IBM website for a minute 16:09
herlo in figure 1 on their site, you see a list of devices, (hda1, hda2, etc) all pointing to what is called a Volume Group 16:10
herlo this is the basic structure, from which your devices will be created 16:10
MartinCo (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2/index.html for those that joined after the link was posted) 16:10
herlo thanks MartinCo 16:10
herlo the devices themselves (hda1, hda2, md0, etc) are what LVM refers to as Physical Volumes and they must be initialized 16:11
herlo once initialized as physical volumes (PV), they can be included into the Volume Group (VG) 16:12
herlo and from the VG, we can pull data and make logical volumes (lv) or what will look like devices where we put our filesystem and data 16:12
herlo a good picture of this is on Figure 3, IBM web link 16:13
herlo so essentially, we have 3 parts, PV, VG and LV, built in that order 16:14
herlo on the http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/logical_volume_manager.shtml site, there are commands that correspond with each section, showing sample commands 16:14
herlo now, while we're discussing this, I've created a RAID0 and have a physical disk, which I will partition and create the LVM 16:15
herlo but there's one more thing that we need to discuss before moving forward with this 16:15
herlo everyone doing okay so far? 16:15
u0m3 I am... 16:15
* MartinCo nods 16:15
SSlater Yes 16:15
icarus-c yes 16:15
herlo Great 16:15
herlo to start off with, we will need to partition any physical devices appropriately, I like the fdisk tool for this, but you can use anything you are comfortable with, parted, gparted, sfdisk, etc 16:16
herlo the partition should be of partition type 8e (LVM) 16:16
herlo # fdisk -l /dev/sdd 16:17
herlo Disk /dev/sdd: 4025 MB, 4025810432 bytes 16:17
herlo 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 489 cylinders 16:17
herlo Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes 16:17
herlo Disk identifier: 0x00000000 16:17
herlo Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System 16:17
herlo /dev/sdd1 1 14 112423+ 8e Linux LVM 16:17
herlo like so 16:17
herlo now my disk is only 100M, but it can be as big as you like 16:17
herlo once you have that done, and you have your RAID, you just need to create PVs for each component in your RAID 16:18
herlo er, LVM 16:18
herlo so, I do the following commands 16:18
herlo # pvcreate /dev/md0 Physical volume "/dev/md0" successfully created 16:18
herlo [root@herlo-lap ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdd1 Physical volume "/dev/sdd1" successfully created 16:19
herlo the 'Physical volume ...' part is on a separate line 16:19
herlo what I have now is an initialized PV, ready to go into a VG 16:19
herlo but now it gets a little tricky. 16:19
herlo LVM introduces these things called Physical Extents 16:20
herlo and while they can affect the performance and minimum size of the disk you can use, generally, they're pretty easy to deal with 16:20
herlo a Physical Extend is essentially a chunk of disk space. Think of it as the block size of LVM. The VG will access one PE at a time when allocating disks. In other words, the Logical Volume will be rounded to the neares PE 16:21
herlo generally, PE's can range from vary small (1k or less) to very large Terabytes or Exabytes. 16:22
herlo In my world, and because I'm using 100MB disks, I'll use a 4MB PE 16:22
herlo this is a relation that is spread from the Physical side of the volume to the Logical side. 16:22
herlo everyone following that? 16:22
icarus-c i guess so 16:22
herlo http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2/index.html has a really good picture 16:22
herlo figure 4 16:23
herlo the red sections define the size of the PV 16:23
herlo and each of those sections are how we allocate a Logical Volume 16:23
herlo PE, not PV 16:23
icarus-c is it only 1 PE can be r/w at a time? :-S 16:24
herlo okay, so finally, we have to create the VG, that's done with vgcreate 16:24
herlo so run, vgcreate --help and you get a nice helpful screen something like this: 16:24
herlo ]# pvcreate --help 16:24
herlo pvcreate: Initialize physical volume(s) for use by LVM 16:24
herlo pvcreate 16:24
herlo [--restorefile file] 16:24
herlo [-d|--debug] 16:24
herlo [-f[f]|--force [--force]] 16:24
herlo [-h|-?|--help] 16:24
herlo [--labelsector sector] 16:24
herlo [-M|--metadatatype 1|2] 16:24
herlo [--metadatacopies #copies] 16:24
herlo [--metadatasize MetadataSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE]] 16:24
herlo [--setphysicalvolumesize PhysicalVolumeSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE] 16:24
herlo [-t|--test] 16:24
herlo [-u|--uuid uuid] 16:24
herlo [-v|--verbose] 16:24
herlo [-y|--yes] 16:24
herlo [-Z|--zero {y|n}] 16:24
herlo [--version] 16:24
herlo PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] 16:24
herlo sorry about the formatting 16:24
herlo oops, vgcreate is what I meant 16:25
herlo vgcreate --help 16:25
herlo vgcreate: Create a volume group 16:25
herlo vgcreate 16:25
herlo [-A|--autobackup {y|n}] 16:25
herlo [--addtag Tag] 16:25
herlo [--alloc AllocationPolicy] 16:25
herlo [-c|--clustered {y|n}] 16:25
herlo [-d|--debug] 16:25
herlo [-h|--help] 16:25
herlo [-l|--maxlogicalvolumes MaxLogicalVolumes] 16:25
herlo [-M|--metadatatype 1|2] 16:25
herlo [-p|--maxphysicalvolumes MaxPhysicalVolumes] 16:25
herlo [-s|--physicalextentsize PhysicalExtentSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE]] 16:25
herlo [-t|--test] 16:25
herlo [-v|--verbose] 16:25
herlo [--version] 16:25
herlo VolumeGroupName PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] 16:25
herlo at least that one is not as long 16:25
herlo we should run pvdisplay to see which PVs we can include 16:25
herlo what you might notice if you have run this is that there might be several (or just a couple) PV's, the ones you are looking for correspond to the ones you've created with pvcreate 16:26
herlo they should also show: Allocatable NO 16:27
herlo because they have not yet been assigned to a VG 16:27
herlo so let's do that 16:27
herlo vgcreate -s 2M happy /dev/md0 16:27
herlo it's that simple 16:27
icarus-c very 16:28
herlo vgdisplay happy 16:28
herlo will now display the details of the happy Volume Group 16:28
herlo I would actually recommend you use a more descriptive name for your VG 16:29
herlo from this VG, we can now take some space that will make our disks 16:29
herlo according to vgdisplay, I have the following: 16:29
herlo VG Size 208.00 MB 16:29
herlo PE Size 2.00 MB 16:29
herlo Total PE 104 16:29
herlo Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 16:29
herlo Free PE / Size 104 / 208.00 MB 16:29
herlo the PE's are now available for me to make my logical volumes. And on the LV side, we call those same elements Logical Extents as they have the same size and structure. 16:30
herlo Only real difference is that the physical part is managed by the VG 16:31
herlo okay, so let's make a disk we can use! 16:31
herlo lvcreate is the tool for this 16:31
herlo lvcreate --help provides two basic functionalities, one is basic creation, the other snapshots. If we have time, I'll discuss snapshots 16:31
herlo so there's a structure there with some options, I'll detail the ones we need for a basic LV 16:32
herlo -n|--name LogicalVolumeName] 16:33
herlo {-l|--extents LogicalExtentsNumber | 16:33
herlo -L|--size LogicalVolumeSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE]} 16:33
herlo VolumeGroupName 16:33
herlo that's really it 16:33
herlo so it looks something like so 16:33
herlo # lvcreate -l 90 -n camper happy 16:34
herlo Logical volume "camper" created 16:34
herlo at this point device mapper creates us a device 16:34
herlo /dev/happy/camper 16:34
herlo # ls -l /dev/happy/camper 16:34
herlo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-12-06 09:33 /dev/happy/camper -> /dev/mapper/happy-camper 16:34
herlo and this is where we make our filesystem 16:34
icarus-c Question: is that -l 90 refers to 90 PE? 16:35
herlo yes, good point 16:35
herlo you can either have -l (Logical Extents, which directly relate to Physical Extents) 16:35
herlo or -L which is a size 16:35
icarus-c i'm kinda confused by [kKmMgGtTpPeE] can you explain a bit? 16:35
herlo right, so if you use -L, you can specify a size, rounded to the nearest LE 16:35
herlo it's an either-or situation 16:36
herlo you don't use both -l and -L 16:36
jds2001 icarus-c: kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, exabytes 16:36
herlo you k, is kibibytes, K is kilobytes, P is Peta 16:36
herlo etc... 16:36
icarus-c i see, thanks 16:36
jds2001 err petabytes in there too. 16:36
herlo # lvdisplay /dev/happy/camper --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/happy/camper VG Name happy LV UUID 97h5rK-WOu3-QF3a-Ii1O-0E3u-vB1a-FH17L7 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 180.00 MB Current LE 90 Segments 1 Allocation inherit 16:36
herlo Readahead sectorsr auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:6 16:36
herlo ooh, ugly 16:36
herlo let me try that again 16:37
jds2001 you use pastebin! :) 16:37
herlo LV Name /dev/happy/camper 16:37
herlo jds2001: if I use pastebin, it expires 16:37
herlo VG Name happy 16:37
herlo Current LE 90 16:37
herlo LV Size 180.00 MB 16:37
herlo there are other details there, but that's good for now 16:38
herlo also, you can see much of htis detail at: http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/logical_volume_manager.shtml 16:38
herlo okay, so now we just build our filesystem on /dev/happy/camper and we've got it all good 16:38
herlo ]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/happy/camper 16:39
herlo dumpe2fs /dev/happy/camper 16:39
herlo can show the details of the new filesystem 16:39
herlo feel free to mount it and you are on your way 16:39
herlo any questions so far? 16:40
u0m3 pretty self-explanatory :) 16:40
herlo making sense? 16:40
SSlater yup 16:40
Don_Miguel yep 16:40
collier_s yup 16:40
herlo okay, so where the flexibility comes in for LVM is with it's ability to add devices 16:40
herlo these are done in two steps 16:41
herlo we always start by building a PV with pvcreate, so that step didn't change, but then we need to extend the VG and the LV 16:41
herlo two commands exist to do this 16:41
herlo vgcreate and lvcreate 16:41
herlo vgextend and lvextend I mean 16:42
jds2001 er, vgextend and lvextend, right? 16:42
herlo wow! 16:42
* herlo is tired 16:42
* kanarip hands herlo a cup of coffee 16:42
jds2001 i hear ya, early out there :) 16:42
herlo kanarip: got one, just sipped it, thanks :) 16:42
herlo the order is important here, as you will need to extend the vg (or at least have some LE's to work with in your VG) before you can use it in the current L 16:43
herlo LV 16:43
herlo lvextend --help 16:43
herlo {-l|--extents [+]LogicalExtentsNumber[%{VG|PVS|FREE}] | 16:43
herlo -L|--size [+]LogicalVolumeSize[kKmMgGtTpPeE]} 16:43
herlo LogicalVolume[Path] [ PhysicalVolumePath... ] 16:44
herlo and vgextend --help 16:44
herlo VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath 16:44
herlo so let's do just that 16:45
herlo vgextend happy /dev/sdd1 16:45
herlo # vgdisplay happy 16:45
herlo now shows more PE's available 16:46
herlo Total PE 158 16:46
herlo Alloc PE / Size 90 / 180.00 MB 16:46
herlo Free PE / Size 68 / 136.00 MB 16:46
herlo it also shows a size of 16:46
herlo VG Size 316.00 MB 16:46
herlo we now have 68 more PEs available to us which we can now use in our /dev/happy/camper 16:46
herlo LV 16:46
herlo lvextend allows us to use -l or -L again, and we can either specify the actual size or add the +Size/LE's 16:47
herlo so it would look something like this 16:47
herlo lvextend -l +68 /dev/happy/camper 16:47
herlo or lvextend -L +136M /dev/happy/camper 16:47
herlo if you wished to not use the + it woudl be 16:48
herlo or lvextend -L 316M /dev/happy/camper 16:48
herlo # lvdisplay /dev/happy/camper 16:49
herlo LV Size 316.00 MB 16:49
herlo Current LE 158 16:49
herlo but we still have a filesystem size much smaller than this 16:49
herlo # df -h 16:49
herlo /dev/mapper/happy-camper 175M 5.6M 160M 4% /mnt 16:50
herlo so we need to resize 16:50
herlo depending on your filesystem, there are several ways to do this, in ext3, its resize2fs 16:50
herlo there's mount options for jfs and xfs that do similar things 16:50
herlo something like 16:50
herlo mount -o remount,resize_jfs /dev/happy/camper 16:50
herlo woudl probably work 16:50
herlo for us, since we're using ext3 we want to run the followign command 16:51
herlo resize2fs /dev/happy/camper 16:51
herlo which will perform the resize *online* and grow the volume in front of our eyse 16:51
herlo eyes 16:51
* herlo waits for the resize to finish :) 16:52
herlo # resize2fs /dev/happy/camper 16:52
herlo resize2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) 16:52
herlo Filesystem at /dev/happy/camper is mounted on /mnt; on-line resizing required 16:52
herlo old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 2 16:52
herlo Performing an on-line resize of /dev/happy/camper to 323584 (1k) blocks. 16:52
herlo The filesystem on /dev/happy/camper is now 323584 blocks long. 16:52
herlo # df -h 16:52
herlo /dev/mapper/happy-camper 307M 6.1M 285M 3% /mnt 16:52
herlo now, there's how to create a logical volume 16:52
herlo what's also neat about LVM is that the default install of Fedora uses it as well. This provides similar flexibility to increase the size of your drives if you add a second hard drive to your system 16:53
herlo any questoins? 16:53
Fuss284 what about shrinking one? 16:53
herlo yes, that can be done as well 16:53
MartinCo painful though 16:53
herlo and that brings up a good discussion 16:53
MartinCo :) 16:53
herlo first off, it cannot be done online 16:54
herlo but, what if you lost a part of your RAID device and wanted to just replace the device 16:54
herlo you could do that all online 16:54
herlo you would need to add a new PV to the VG, and then run a pvmove 16:54
herlo the pvmove would move all of the PEs from the device specified to the rest of the larger VG 16:54
herlo and then a pvremove would allow you to remove the devices from the system 16:55
icarus-c what about shrinking your happy-camper ? :P 16:55
herlo as far as shrinking, I'd first have to unmount /dev/happy/camper 16:55
herlo then lvreduce 16:55
herlo then vgreduce 16:55
herlo if you wanted to reduce the vg that is 16:55
icarus-c i think we need to resize the filesystem too right? 16:56
herlo ooh, first 16:56
herlo you need to fsck and resize the fs, yes 16:56
Fuss284 herlo don't you have to reduce the filesystem too? since, when you extended it, you had to.. ah 16:56
herlo which is why you can't do it online 16:56
herlo thanks guys, sorry I knew that :) 16:56
icarus-c so first umount , 2nd resize fs and finally resize the lv & pv? 16:56
herlo not the pv 16:56
herlo and you don't have to resize the vg unless you want to 16:57
icarus-c ar vg 16:57
herlo also, you can make multiple lv's from one vg 16:57
herlo so if I had wanted to make /dev/happy/camper and /dev/happy/gilmore,that's fine just as long as you dont try to make one LV from multiple VGs 16:57
herlo another thing that's really neat is snapshots 16:58
herlo the concept of snapshots is that they are easy to build structures that take a timestamp (essentially) in time and allow it to be backed up, while the LV is still online 16:58
herlo what is needed is another disk, which will be created with pv's and Vg's then the LV is pointed at the LV to back up, and mounted read only 16:59
herlo then a back up device can start its copy 16:59
herlo the interesting part about this is that when a change occurs on the origin LV, it's delta is saved off to the snapshot LV and the origin LV continues to work as normal 16:59
herlo this is really good for full-backups 17:00
herlo one other thing I'd like to quickly mention is the fact that LVM is fully recoverable onto another system in a matter of minutes 17:00
herlo every bit of data about the lvm is stored in the superblock (or whatever you want to call the first sector) 17:01
herlo of each of the disks 17:01
herlo so pull your disks, move them to another machine and run 17:01
herlo vgscan 17:01
herlo you'll see your vg and you can then activate it 17:01
herlo vgchange -a y <vgname> 17:01
herlo and voila, you've moved your vg from one machine to another 17:02
herlo any other questions? 17:02
herlo k, guess not. Thanks all 17:03
Discordian thank you herlo 17:03
u0m3 thank you for the lesson :) 17:03
collier_s yup, great lesson 17:03
MartinCo thanks 17:03
SSlater Thanks herlo. That clarified things. 17:03
* herlo wants to remind everyone that #fedora-townhall has some FAmSCo discussions shortly 17:04
herlo thanks guys... 17:04
* SSlater falls asleep in back of classroom. 17:04
* herlo mentions that 2 of the 4 irc classes are already posted on Communicate/IRC/Classroom, the other two will be posted shortly 17:05
u0m3 herlo one question: do you happen to know if the /boot partition can be in lvm? as far as I know/remember grub dosen't know/understand lvm. has that changed? 17:07
herlo u0m3: not yet 17:08
herlo in grub2, it can 17:08
u0m3 ok. thanks 17:08
herlo that's coming along nicely too. I've been watching its development over the past while. 17:08
herlo u0m3: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html 17:09

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