From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750819AbWDTKJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:09:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750817AbWDTKJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:09:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.blackdown.de ([213.239.206.42]:63902 "EHLO smtp.blackdown.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819AbWDTKJF (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:09:05 -0400 Message-ID: <44475D93.60506@blackdown.de> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:08:19 +0200 From: Juergen Kreileder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka J Enberg CC: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, agk@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Device-mapper snapshot metadata userspace breakage References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pekka J Enberg wrote: > The commit aa14edeb994f8f7e223d02ad14780bf2fa719f6d "[PATCH] device-mapper > snapshot: load metadata on creation" breaks userspace and is blocking us > from moving to the 2.6.16 series kernel. Debian doesn't have the > new required LVM version in stable yet. Is the change intentional? I've made backports of newer tools for sarge[1]. But even with that snapshots can't be removed reliable with 2.6.16, I get 'BUG at drivers/md/kcopyd.c:146'. (More info in http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0604.1/1643.html) Juergen [1] http://blog.blackdown.de/2006/04/09/lvm-snapshots-with-debian-sarge-and-linux-2616/ -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://blog.blackdown.de/