[dm-devel] Thin provisioning bug in interface

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Mon Sep 19 17:11:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> if you destroy the pool target (reload it with empty table or something 
> like that) --- the pool structure can't be freed from memory (because a 
> thin device is open) and it is still active. 

You shouldn't be able to destroy the pool target while it is in use.
(When I last looked at it a few weeks ago, I thought the target line
parameters were OK, but just that we'd not fixed every possible usage
sequence/handover yet.)

Alasdair




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