Nice the janitorial dds as well as ionicing them.
[invirt/packages/invirt-remote.git] / host / usr / sbin / invirt-janitor
1 #!/usr/bin/python
2
3 """Clean-up after people's deleted VMs.
4
5 The Invirt janitor goes through and finds virtual disk images that
6 users have requested we delete. For their privacy, it writes over the
7 entire disk with /dev/zero, then removes the logical volume, restoring
8 the space to the pool.
9
10 A request is indicated to the janitor by creating a file in
11 /var/lib/invirt-remote/cleanup/ corresponding to the name of the LV to
12 delete. The janitor notices these requests using inotify.
13 """
14
15
16 import os
17 import subprocess
18 import syslog
19 import traceback
20
21 import pyinotify
22
23
24 _JANITOR_DIR = '/var/lib/invirt-remote/cleanup'
25
26
27 def cleanup():
28     """Actually cleanup deleted LVs.
29
30     When triggered, continue to iterate over cleanup queue files,
31     deleting LVs one at a time, until there are no more pending
32     cleanups.
33     """
34     while True:
35         lvs = os.listdir(_JANITOR_DIR)
36         if not lvs:
37             break
38
39         lv = lvs.pop()
40         lv_path = '/dev/xenvg/%s' % lv
41
42         try:
43             # If the LV name doesn't start with old_, we probably
44             # don't actually want to be deleting it.
45             #
46             # Put it in the try block because we still want to delete
47             # the state file.
48             if not lv.startswith('old_'):
49                 continue
50
51             syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Cleaning up LV '%s'" % lv_path)
52
53             # In a perfect world, this should be erroring out with
54             # ENOSPC, so we ignore errors
55             subprocess.call(['/usr/bin/ionice',
56                              '-c', '2',
57                              '-n', '7',
58                              '/usr/bin/nice',
59                              '/bin/dd',
60                              'if=/dev/zero',
61                              'of=%s' % lv_path,
62                              'bs=1M'])
63
64             # Ignore any errors here, because there's really just not
65             # anything we can do.
66             subprocess.call(['/sbin/lvchange', '-a', 'n', lv_path])
67             subprocess.call(['/sbin/lvchange', '-a', 'ey', lv_path])
68             subprocess.check_call(['/sbin/lvremove', '--force', lv_path])
69
70             syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Successfully cleaned up LV '%s'" % lv_path)
71         except:
72             syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, "Error cleaning up LV '%s':" % lv_path)
73
74             for line in traceback.format_exc().split('\n'):
75                 syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, line)
76         finally:
77             # Regardless of what happens, we always want to remove the
78             # cleanup queue file, because even if there's an error, we
79             # don't want to waste time wiping the same disk repeatedly
80             os.unlink(os.path.join(_JANITOR_DIR, lv))
81
82
83 class Janitor(pyinotify.ProcessEvent):
84     """Process inotify events by wiping and deleting LVs.
85
86     The Janitor class receives inotify events when a new file is
87     created in the state directory.
88     """
89     def process_IN_CREATE(self, event):
90         """Handle a created file or directory.
91
92         When an IN_CREATE event comes in, trigger a cleanup.
93         """
94         cleanup()
95
96
97 def main():
98     """Initialize the inotifications and start the main loop."""
99     syslog.openlog('invirt-janitor', syslog.LOG_PID, syslog.LOG_DAEMON)
100
101     watch_manager = pyinotify.WatchManager()
102     janitor = Janitor()
103     notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(watch_manager, janitor)
104     watch_manager.add_watch(_JANITOR_DIR,
105                             pyinotify.EventsCodes.ALL_FLAGS['IN_CREATE'])
106
107     # Before inotifying, run any pending cleanups; otherwise we won't
108     # get notified for them.
109     cleanup()
110
111     while True:
112         notifier.process_events()
113         if notifier.check_events():
114             notifier.read_events()
115
116
117 if __name__ == '__main__':
118     main()