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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Progress on LVM2 snapshots
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:47:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050729204757.GP23710@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122572640.9888.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:44:00PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
> 1) very hard to solve technically. or
> 2) not so easy but doable, just no time and human resource?
 
The hardest part of the fix involves changing the sequence of 
device-mapper ioctls that LVM2 uses, and that's a couple of weeks' 
development work, now pencilled into the RHEL4 Update 3 timescale.

In the meantime, you can apply the snapshot patches in the -udm
tree and use 'dmsetup' manually to activate and deactivate snapshots
when lvm2 fails.

Patches 8 and 9 at:
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-udm1/
(Further patches are needed, but those two plus correct dmsetup use
should avoid machine lockups.)

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-29 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20 11:45 [linux-lvm] Progress on LVM2 snapshots Mukund
2005-07-28 17:44 ` Ming Zhang
2005-07-28 20:06   ` Jonathan E Brassow
2005-07-28 20:26     ` Ming Zhang
2005-07-28 20:45       ` Jonathan E Brassow
2005-07-28 20:50         ` Ming Zhang
2005-07-29 20:47   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2005-07-29 21:13     ` Ming Zhang

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