From: Joe Thornber <thornber@btconnect.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] rc4 can't take snaphots of 0.9.1_beta7 lvs
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:30:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011009203031.B1034@btconnect.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407510000.1002645036@tiny>; from mason@suse.com on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:30:36PM -0400
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:30:36PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 09, 2001 04:58:01 PM +0100 Joe Thornber
> <thornber@btconnect.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some of the betas misaligned the logical volumes. If the volumes
> > aren't page aligned the snapshot code (which uses kiovecs) cannot
> > work. You have this problem. Fixing it isn't easy; you need to
> > shuffle your extents up or down by the appropriate amount. No one has
> > written a program to do this as of yet. Sorry.
> >
>
> Well, it worked in beta7
did it ? It may not have segfaulted, but did you check the data
really carefully ? After all it took a while for anyone to realise the
problem existed.
- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-09 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 15:32 [linux-lvm] rc4 can't take snaphots of 0.9.1_beta7 lvs Chris Mason
2001-10-09 15:58 ` Joe Thornber
2001-10-09 16:30 ` Chris Mason
2001-10-09 19:30 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2001-10-09 19:42 ` Joe Thornber
2001-10-09 20:01 ` Chris Mason
2001-10-09 19:48 ` Chris Mason
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