Re: [linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot

[Charles Marcus <CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com>]

On 5/1/2008 4:30 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> At least in the case where the snapshot is read-only (LVM1 default, 
>>> LVM2 by config?), if the snapshot is lost, invalid, not removed from 
>>> VG prior to reboot, when LVM comes back up it should see this and 
>>> immediately know that it can just vgreduce VG --removemissing for the 
>>> old snapshot.  In the case of rw (no LVM1, LVM2 default), it should 
>>> be a user choice and LVM should prompt the user at boot as to whether 
>>> to remove this old snapshot so it can attempt to activate the VG.  
>>> Unless the user knows that there were non-backup related lvm mods 
>>> written during the snapshot (eg: pvmove) then the user will just 
>>> answer yes and the system should boot.  This is how LVM should 
>>> operate in this scenario.

>> If you want your system to do that, update your initrd/initscripts
>> accordingly to run the appropriate lvm2 commands to do that!

> I can certainly do that. But I think this applies in the general case 
> and should be included as standard behavior in LVM. This is a much more 
> robust means of dealing with this scenario that having LVM just refuse 
> to mount the volume when the only issue is a bad snapshot.

Question...

In Gerry's scenario here, if the snapshot volume had NOT been on a ram 
disk, would he have had the problem he had or not?

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Best regards,

Charles