From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agk.surrey.redhat.com (agk.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.10.74]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBFIKjnk026487 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:20:45 GMT Received: from agk by agk.surrey.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GvHfp-0006ze-Dt for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:20:45 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:20:45 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvconvert and create mirror for root fs Message-ID: <20061215182045.GA26819@agk.surrey.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:36:13PM +0100, a a wrote: > rename("/etc/lvm/metadata/vg00.tmp", "/etc/lvm/metadata/vg00") = 0 > Can you tell me where is problem? You keep your metadata on a filesystem mounted on the volume concerned? That can never work. See doc/example.conf. # List of directories holding live copies of text format metadata. # These directories must not be on logical volumes! Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com