Ubuntu/GlusterFS: Unable to create thinly provisioned volume from previously created pool using lvcreate

Question

I'm testing out glusterfs, and was following this guide on creating setting up volumes. I ran into an error when trying to create a thinly provisioned volume. This is the section

Create a thinly provisioned volume from the previously created pool using the lvcreate command:

For example:

lvcreate -V 1G -T gfs_vg/gfs_pool -n gfs_lv

It is recommended that only one LV should be created in a thin pool.

This is the error I encountered:

/usr/sbin/thin_check: execvp failed: No such file or directory
Check of pool gfs_vg/gfs_pool failed (status:2). Manual repair required!
Aborting. Failed to locally activate thin pool gfs_vg/gfs_pool.

Googling the issue. I tried to repair it via lvconvert, and it doesn't seem to work

root@DSI:/home/main# lvconvert --repair gfs_vg/gfs_pool
/usr/sbin/thin_repair: execvp failed: No such file or directory
Repair of thin metadata volume of thin pool gfs_vg/gfs_pool failed (status:2). Manual repair required!

Does anyone know what's the issue?

Answer 1

Both errors are due to missing binaries. You're missing /usr/sbin/thin_check and /usr/sbin/thin_repair, which are tools that come with the thin-provisioning-tools package. The following should fix it:

apt-get -y install thin-provisioning-tools