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From: Marian Csontos <mcsontos@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	me@mooluv.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm Bug? - bad reaction to snapshot creation
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:08:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <539587BA.3040500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53958348.3000501@redhat.com>

On 06/09/2014 11:50 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Dne 7.6.2014 01:26, Leeman Strout napsal(a):
>>
>> Creating a snapshot throws an error "Attempted to decrement suspended
>> device
>> counter below zero." but succeeds.  Removing the snapshot fails,
>> attempting a
>> 2nd time succeeds.  Somewhere in this process the original LV gets
>> locked and
>> the system needs to be restarted to unlock it.  As explained below this
>> happens intermittently but regularly.
>>
>>
>> Any additional info please let me know directly, I am not a subscriber,
>
>
> Hi
>
>
> Unsure if this relates to all your problem (since I'm not sure how arch
> linux
> is in sync with udev rules & systemd version)
>
> At certain moment  systemd added a new 'feature' about locking devices
> while
> updating internal udev state - this locking ignores any udev rule flags
> and opens internal lvm2 devices - so while for now it's been again
> disabled for 'dm' devices - you might have installed version of system
> which has the 'lock everything' feature in?
>
> Thought this doesn't explain your 'counter below zero' error - this
> looks like
> some incorrect udev rules are running in the field ?
> (Or maybe multiple  systemd-udevd are running ?)

There is also a recent BZ against RHEL7:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105732

What are the devices used in the stack?

-- Martian

>
> Zdenek
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-09 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-06 23:26 [linux-lvm] lvm Bug? - bad reaction to snapshot creation Leeman Strout
2014-06-09  9:50 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-06-09 10:08   ` Marian Csontos [this message]
2014-06-09 14:55     ` Leeman Strout
2014-06-09 14:53   ` Leeman Strout
2014-06-10  7:58     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2014-06-10 13:45       ` Leeman Strout
2014-06-10 15:22       ` Leeman Strout
2014-06-11  7:59         ` Christian Hesse
2014-06-10  8:31     ` Zdenek Kabelac

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