From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] let dmeventd unmount invalid snapshots (BZ 189462)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:34:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCACD5A.7040805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y69h6wy8.fsf@twilight.int.mornfall.net.>
Dne 29.10.2010 13:49, Petr Rockai napsal(a):
> Hi again,
>
> the somewhat delayed re-cast of the auto-umount patch is
> attached. Changes since the last time:
>
> - the umount itself is now outside the dmeventd lvm2 lock, which should
> mitigate the deadlock opportunities introduced by the umount
> - we fork & exec real /bin/umount now, meaning that /etc/mtab is updated
> (well, if umount manages to update it, that is)
>
Looks like a bit of problem for application which locks itself into memory, to
proceed all the time. Though currently I do not have good solution for this
problem in mind - so it's probably to have at least something in this moment.
Zdenek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-29 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 13:51 [PATCH] automatic snapshot extension with dmeventd (BZ 427298) Petr Rockai
2010-10-05 17:44 ` Petr Rockai
2010-10-07 13:10 ` [PATCH] let dmeventd unmount invalid snapshots (BZ 189462) Petr Rockai
2010-10-07 19:23 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-20 22:50 ` Petr Rockai
2010-10-29 11:49 ` Petr Rockai
2010-10-29 12:44 ` Petr Rockai
2010-10-29 13:34 ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2010-10-14 9:51 ` [PATCH] automatic snapshot extension with dmeventd (BZ 427298) Zdenek Kabelac
2010-10-15 11:57 ` Petr Rockai
2010-10-15 12:55 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2010-10-15 14:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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