This issue is specific to xfs only, when we create a clone volume and system is taking time in creating the device.
When we create a clone volume from a xfs filesystem, ZFS-LocalPV will go ahead and generate a new UUID for the clone volumes as we need a new UUID to mount the new clone filesystem. To generate a new UUID for the clone volume, ZFS-LocalPV first replays the xfs log by mounting the device to a tmp localtion.
Here, what is happening is since device creation is slow, so we went ahead and created the tmp location to mount the clone volume but since device has not created yet, the mount failed. In the next try since the tmp location is present, it will keep failing there only at every reconciliation time.
Signed-off-by: Pawan <pawan@mayadata.io>
xfs_admin command to generate the new UUID for the cloned
volume fails without returning error if there is log available
in the filesystem :
ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log that needs to
be replayed. Mount the filesystem to replay the log, and unmount it before
re-running xfs_admin. If you are unable to mount the filesystem, then use
the xfs_repair -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair.
Note that destroying the log may cause corruption -- please attempt a mount
of the filesystem before doing this.
No UUID will be generated in this case and application can not mount the volume.
Here mounting the filesystem to the temp location with "nouuid" mount option first
so that it can replay the logs first and system is in clean state and then unmount it
and after that generating the UUID with the xfs_admin command.
Signed-off-by: Pawan <pawan@mayadata.io>
