From: David Brown <lvm@davidb.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then lvcreate hang.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:32:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <451A0D03.9000204@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625ccb870609262203m400d149ax47ef5396dd96236@mail.gmail.com>
bowen zheng wrote:
> Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then
> lvcreate hang.
The lvcreate does the xfs_freeze for you, so if you run xfs_freeze, then
the lcreate will hang. Running it with '-u' should allow the lvcreate to
hang.
> I use lvm2 and xfs both. If I do not use xfs_freeze before, I can use
> lvcreate snapshot the lv. And it work fine for some static files or
> lv, but not for running system such as / (root) which will generate a
> log of I/O error.
What kind of errors are you getting. I've done this on active filesystems
for backup purposes, and not had any problems.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 5:03 [linux-lvm] Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then lvcreate hang bowen zheng
2006-09-27 5:32 ` David Brown [this message]
2006-09-27 13:33 ` Steve Feehan
2006-09-27 16:49 ` David Brown
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