From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4KHdO002185 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:39:24 -0400 Received: from monkey.sneakemail.com (clean.sneakemail.com [38.136.15.35]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4KHdOGG020583 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:39:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:39:16 +0200 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Ext3, 2.4.26 and lvm snapshot Message-ID: <29703-69379@sneakemail.com> References: <20040420174154.7565e081.julien.combes@i-carre.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040420174154.7565e081.julien.combes@i-carre.net> From: "Wolfgang Weisselberg" 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: linux-lvm@redhat.com COMBES Julien wrote 29 lines: [mounting ext3 snapshots fails, ext2 works] > I searched on internet and I found some information but it let me > confused. I found many informations about a VFS-patch which seems to be > necessary, but I don't found this patch for a linux kernel 2.4.26 (I only > found it for version up to 2.4.22). Apply the 2.4.22 patch to the 2.4.26 tree, it works. You may get warnings about the line numbers being a bit off or even about 'fuzzy' matches, but the 'patch' program is clever enough to do the right thing. > So I wonder if this patch is always necessary ? If you want to mount ext3 snapshots, yes, it is. -Wolfgang