From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS? Message-Id: <20020115153547.GB1022@tykepenguin.com> References: <1010427293.29260.3.camel@UberGeek> <200201080927.g089QVJ00669@hammer.brocade.com> <20020115151829.F11005@sistina.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jan 15 09:36:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:16:15AM +1000, Adrian Head wrote: > The issue was that when I tried to create an XFS snapshot it would Oops and > the snapshot creation would not have been completed. The /dev/vg/lv entries > would not be there; however, vgdisplay would show the snapshot as being in > use but I could not remove the incomplete snapshot. > > When I would reboot using a lvm-1.0.1 kernel (2.4.17-xfs+lvm1.0.1) - the > machine would hang during startup; however, if I used a lvm-1.0.1rc4(ish) > kernel (2.4.16-xfs+lvm1.0.1rc4) it would fix the problem on the fly during > bootup and the snapshot would be put in full operation without problems. > This was the only way I found to get the machine up & running again. > > I don't have any info on which lines of code might have been the cause. I'm > still learning how to dig in and dbug. ;-) Looking at other threads in this list I think the issues are XFS related. I have tried the latest XFS patches from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17/ and the snapshots seem OK to me (that's without the VFS lock patch which XFS doesn't seem to need anyway). patrick