From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronny Adsetts Message-ID: References: <2D92FEBFD3BE1346A6C397223A8DD3FC092442@THOR.goeci.com> <3F9FE42D.6070306@amazinginternet.com> <1067475054.17678.32.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1067475054.17678.32.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com> Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Error on unmounting XFS LVM snapshot Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Oct 30 08:00:09 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Greg Freemyer said the following on 30/10/03 00:50: >>I did see this this today which appears to be the same issue: >> >>http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20031027_238.html#4 >> >> From Marcelo Tosatti[1]: "It seems its not safe to create snapshots of >>journalled fs'es without this patch[2]." >> >>Looks like the patch will show up in mainline in the 2.4.24-pre series. >> >>[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106642797513724&w=2 >>[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106623350522639&q=p3 >> > > Is the above talking about the VFS_LOCK patch, or is there another patch > that should be applied? It appears to be the VFS lock patch, but I'm no kernel guru... Regards, Ronny