How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log
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@scottalanmiller said
Your goal is to not mount /var/log as its own filesystem, that is correct.
@scottalanmiller What is your take on this new wrinkle?
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@BRRABill Did you create a separate logical volume for /var/log, or is both that and the storage repository on the same lv?
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@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@BRRABill Did you create a separate logical volume for /var/log, or is both that and the storage repository on the same lv?
No. XS used 100% of the space I had for its own LV.
So we thought putting a directory with the VHD files would be ok.
So /run/sr-mount/xxxxxxxxx
has
vm1.vhd
vm2.vhd
vm3.vhd
lost+found
xenserverlogs (the directory i created)Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
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possible, yes. I'd say unlikely, but if it causes the software to freak out because it doesn't expect it there, yes.
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@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
In no way should it create issues like this... in the real world however, well.
Do you have free space available that you could shrink the LV and create another LV just for the log files?
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@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
In no way should it create issues like this... in the real world however, well.
Do you have free space available that you could shrink the LV and create another LV just for the log files?
yes, shrinking is a technical possibility.
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
In no way should it create issues like this... in the real world however, well.
Do you have free space available that you could shrink the LV and create another LV just for the log files?
yes, shrinking is a technical possibility.
The other question I'd think about is if it's an LV or VG. ProxMox (good riddance, it's gone) actually uses a volume group when you mount local storage LVM containers.
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@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
In no way should it create issues like this... in the real world however, well.
Do you have free space available that you could shrink the LV and create another LV just for the log files?
yes, shrinking is a technical possibility.
The other question I'd think about is if it's an LV or VG. ProxMox (good riddance, it's gone) actually uses a volume group when you mount local storage LVM containers.
You have to have a VG to have an LV.
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@scottalanmiller said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
Is it possible putting a directory there would cause this big an issue?
In no way should it create issues like this... in the real world however, well.
Do you have free space available that you could shrink the LV and create another LV just for the log files?
yes, shrinking is a technical possibility.
The other question I'd think about is if it's an LV or VG. ProxMox (good riddance, it's gone) actually uses a volume group when you mount local storage LVM containers.
You have to have a VG to have an LV.
Right. In this case what they did actually does make sense. The drive containers were each created as their own LV.
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@travisdh1 said
Right. In this case what they did actually does make sense. The drive containers were each created as their own LV.
You mean what XS did makes sense?
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@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said
Right. In this case what they did actually does make sense. The drive containers were each created as their own LV.
You mean what XS did makes sense?
I was referring to ProxMox with that comment, but XS does the same thing with LVM local storage.
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@travisdh1 said
dd would take a long, long time if you have it copying something like /proc, /sys, or /dev.
Is it "safe" to run dd on a running boot disk? Why does it take so long?
Assuming so, but you know what happens when one assumes!
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@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@travisdh1 said
dd would take a long, long time if you have it copying something like /proc, /sys, or /dev.
Is it "safe" to run dd on a running boot disk? Why does it take so long?
Assuming so, but you know what happens when one assumes!
Yes, it is only reading, not writing. Reading things is always safe.
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@scottalanmiller said
Yes, it is only reading, not writing. Reading things is always safe.
Why does it take so long for those directories?
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@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said
Yes, it is only reading, not writing. Reading things is always safe.
Why does it take so long for those directories?
dd reads block devices, not directories. It has no concept of directories.
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@scottalanmiller said
dd reads block devices, not directories. It has no concept of directories.
Then what is the significance/reason for the previous poster saying
"dd would take a long, long time if you have it copying something like /proc, /sys, or /dev." -
@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said
dd reads block devices, not directories. It has no concept of directories.
Then what is the significance/reason for the previous poster saying
"dd would take a long, long time if you have it copying something like /proc, /sys, or /dev."
Those are fake block devices. If you try to copy them they will take a very long time since /proc includes maps to the entire memory space and /dev includes all devices of any type including many mappings to every disk.@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said
dd reads block devices, not directories. It has no concept of directories.
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@scottalanmiller said
Those are fake block devices. If you try to copy them they will take a very long time since /proc includes maps to the entire memory space and /dev includes all devices of any type including many mappings to every disk.
So using dd to clone a USB while running (which we were discussing) would clone differently that if you shut down the XS, and used a separate machine, such as @DustinB3403 originally posted?
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@BRRABill said in How to Stop XenServer from Mounting /var/log:
@scottalanmiller said
Those are fake block devices. If you try to copy them they will take a very long time since /proc includes maps to the entire memory space and /dev includes all devices of any type including many mappings to every disk.
So using dd to clone a USB while running (which we were discussing) would clone differently that if you shut down the XS, and used a separate machine, such as @DustinB3403 originally posted?
Yes. A running system has things like /proc and /dev. I haven't experimented with cloning the actual block device (/dev/sdaX) instead of the mounted file system, but I don't know how well it would work if you're not doing it from an LVM snapshot.....
Speaking of which, please tell me that XenServer 7 uses LVM for it's important bits?
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@travisdh1 said
Yes. A running system has things like /proc and /dev. I haven't experimented with cloning the actual block device (/dev/sdaX) instead of the mounted file system, but I don't know how well it would work if you're not doing it from an LVM snapshot.....
So a lot of what was said in this thread about using dd for cloning the XS USB boot device is not necessarily true...
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/9425/cloning-xenserver-on-usb-or-sd
