From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7BM18uM005201 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:01:08 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com (palrel13.hp.com [156.153.255.238]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7BM17Mm009418 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:01:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.ptp.hp.com (smtp.cup.hp.com [15.1.28.250]) by palrel13.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA7436D54 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [15.244.57.26] (airwolf.cup.hp.com [15.244.57.26]) by smtp1.ptp.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF87420EEC for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44DCFE18.7050902@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:00:56 -0700 From: John DeFranco MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Archive Question References: <44DCF352.3080605@cup.hp.com> <20060811211922.GK18633@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <44DCF622.4030006@cup.hp.com> <20060811214150.GL18633@agk.surrey.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060811214150.GL18633@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:26:58PM -0700, John DeFranco wrote: >> /etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm >> issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts >> that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in >> parallel. > > And you have default locking enabled? > locking_type = 1 locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm" > in lvm.conf with /var also local > Yes to all. > Perhaps there's some race in the backup file code: > It would be useful to have a list of all the lvm commands that might > possibly be executing against each other. I'm trying to assemble that list. Thanks. -- =========== Cheers -jd