lvm archive eats lot of space when creating thousands of volumes

[frasmarco]

Linux LVM by default saves the previus copy of lvm configuration in /etc/lvm/archive/, this is perfectly fine normally but could become a problem when crrating thousand of LVs. As a workaround we built a copy of the container disabling LVM archive feature:

FROM docker.io/openebs/lvm-driver:1.0.0

RUN sed -i -e '/^\sarchive\s=/s/1/0/' /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

[abhilashshetty04]

@frasmarco , Thanks for raising this. Can you provide more details on the issue. This seems like a requirement that you were able to handle yourself.

[frasmarco]

@abhilashshetty04 , sure I've been able to handle myself but we had to build a custom lvm-driver container, it should be included upstream, who ever cares or will be looking at lvm.conf archives in the localpv driver container?

[abhilashshetty04]

@frasmarco , This could be a good add-on to the product. Would like to know if you want to contribute?

[frasmarco]

Yes, sure

[abhilashshetty04]

@frasmarco , Thanks in advance!

[orville-wright]

@frasmarco and @abhilashshetty04 - I am moving this issues / feature request into the LocalPV-LVM repo and it will then get tracked and picked up by the new unified Mayastor project. Which will get activate very soon.

It sounds like this feature request will be useful for LocalPV-LVM, and its a great candidate for community contribution since @frasmarco has already built to solution / code.

@frasmarco are you still interested in working with us to contribute you code into openebs?

[ToroNZ]

This doesn't seem to be present on the 1.5.0 (latest right now) anymore:

# Using tag 1.0.0
$ sudo docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint "/bin/bash" openebs/lvm-driver:1.0.0
bash-5.0# cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep "archive ="
	archive = 1

# Using tag 1.5.0
$ sudo docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint "/bin/bash" openebs/lvm-driver:1.5.0
71465669ba7b:/# cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep "archive ="
	# archive = 1

In fact, the 1.5.0 tag doesn't have much config at all (compared to the 1.0.0 tag):

# 1.5.0
2956c3348436:/# cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep -v '^\s*#\|^\s*$'
config {
}
devices {
}
allocation {
}
log {
}
backup {
}
shell {
}
global {
	library_dir="/lib/device-mapper"
}
activation {
}
dmeventd {
}

# 1.0.0
bash-5.0# cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep -v '^\s*#\|^\s*$'
config {
	checks = 1
	abort_on_errors = 0
	profile_dir = "/etc/lvm/profile"
}
devices {
	dir = "/dev"
	scan = [ "/dev" ]
	obtain_device_list_from_udev = 1
	external_device_info_source = "none"
	cache_dir = "/etc/lvm/cache"
	cache_file_prefix = ""
	write_cache_state = 1
	sysfs_scan = 1
	scan_lvs = 0
	multipath_component_detection = 1
	md_component_detection = 1
	fw_raid_component_detection = 0
	md_chunk_alignment = 1
	data_alignment_detection = 1
	data_alignment = 0
	data_alignment_offset_detection = 1
	ignore_suspended_devices = 0
	ignore_lvm_mirrors = 1
	disable_after_error_count = 0
	require_restorefile_with_uuid = 1
	pv_min_size = 2048
	issue_discards = 0
	allow_changes_with_duplicate_pvs = 0
}
allocation {
	maximise_cling = 1
	use_blkid_wiping = 1
	wipe_signatures_when_zeroing_new_lvs = 1
	mirror_logs_require_separate_pvs = 0
	cache_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs = 0
	thin_pool_metadata_require_separate_pvs = 0
}
log {
	verbose = 0
	silent = 0
	syslog = 1
	overwrite = 0
	level = 0
	indent = 1
	command_names = 0
	prefix = "  "
	activation = 0
	debug_classes = [ "memory", "devices", "io", "activation", "allocation", "lvmetad", "metadata", "cache", "locking", "lvmpolld", "dbus" ]
}
backup {
	backup = 1
	backup_dir = "/etc/lvm/backup"
	archive = 1
	archive_dir = "/etc/lvm/archive"
	retain_min = 10
	retain_days = 30
}
shell {
	history_size = 100
}
global {
	umask = 077
	test = 0
	units = "r"
	si_unit_consistency = 1
	suffix = 1
	activation = 1
	proc = "/proc"
	etc = "/etc"
	locking_type = 1
	wait_for_locks = 1
	fallback_to_clustered_locking = 1
	fallback_to_local_locking = 1
	locking_dir = "/run/lock/lvm"
	prioritise_write_locks = 1
	library_dir="/lib/device-mapper"
	abort_on_internal_errors = 0
	metadata_read_only = 0
	mirror_segtype_default = "raid1"
	raid10_segtype_default = "raid10"
	sparse_segtype_default = "thin"
	use_lvmetad = 0
	use_lvmlockd = 0
	system_id_source = "none"
	use_lvmpolld = 0
	notify_dbus = 1
}
activation {
	checks = 0
	udev_sync = 1
	udev_rules = 1
	verify_udev_operations = 0
	retry_deactivation = 1
	missing_stripe_filler = "error"
	use_linear_target = 1
	reserved_stack = 64
	reserved_memory = 8192
	process_priority = -18
	raid_region_size = 2048
	readahead = "auto"
	raid_fault_policy = "warn"
	mirror_image_fault_policy = "remove"
	mirror_log_fault_policy = "allocate"
	snapshot_autoextend_threshold = 100
	snapshot_autoextend_percent = 20
	thin_pool_autoextend_threshold = 100
	thin_pool_autoextend_percent = 20
	use_mlockall = 1
	monitoring = 1
	polling_interval = 15
	activation_mode = "degraded"
}
dmeventd {
	mirror_library = "libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so"
	snapshot_library = "libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so"
	thin_library = "libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so"
}

[avishnu]

@frasmarco is this still an issue for you in the latest version?