[linux-lvm] Error on unmounting XFS LVM snapshot

[Ronny Adsetts <ronny.adsetts@amazinginternet.com>]

Hi,

Please Cc me on any replies.

I am seeing an error logged when unmounting an LVM snapshot of an XFS 
partition. Google doesn't give me much.

I have reproduced this error on a different system using a totally 
different disk sub-system (Mylex eXtremeRAID 3000) - the system below 
has an Adaptec 2400A.

Details are:

System is XFS on top of LVM on top of hardware RAID.

Software used:
Debian: 3.0 (Mostly)
Kernel: 2.4.21
Kernel patches: Debian standard kernel patches; XFS 1.3.0
LVM utils: 1.0.4-4 (Debian)
XFS utils: 2.5.6-1 (Debian)

Sequence of actions:
1: xfs_freeze -f /home
2: lvcreate -L 1G -s -n home_lv_bak /dev/vg0/home_lv
3: xfs_freeze -u /home
4: mount -t xfs -onouuid,ro,usrquota /dev/vg0/home_lv_bak /mnt/home
5: umount /mnt/home
6: lvremove -f /dev/vg0/home_lv_bak

On step 5 of above, an error is logged:

Logs:
Oct 17 17:23:44 jettero kernel: lvm - lvm_map: ll_rw_blk write for 
readonly LV /dev/vg0/home_lv_bak
Oct 17 17:23:44 jettero kernel: xfs_force_shutdown(lvm(58,10),0x1) 
called from line 351 of file xfs_rw.c.  Return address = 0xc01fd6aa
Oct 17 17:23:44 jettero kernel: Filesystem "lvm(58,10)": I/O Error 
Detected.  Shutting down filesystem: lvm(58,10)
Oct 17 17:23:44 jettero kernel: Please umount the filesystem, and 
rectify the problem(s)

There is no oops and machine seems stable enough, though it's only been 
running a couple of days since I first did this.

Is this anything to worry about? Is this a known problem? Are there any 
patches to fix it?

Thanks and regards,
Ronny Adsetts
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