From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:11:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:11:21 -0400 Received: from port5.ds1-sby.adsl.cybercity.dk ([212.242.169.198]:22076 "EHLO trider-g7.fabbione.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:11:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3D29BA6D.80105@fabbione.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:14:37 +0200 From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Riley Williams CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre10 DevFS + LVM OOPS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Riley, here are the results: trider-g7:/tmp# mkdir X trider-g7:/tmp# cd X trider-g7:/tmp/X# mv ../X ../Y trider-g7:/tmp/X# cd `pwd` bash: cd: /tmp/X: No such file or directory trider-g7:/tmp/X# lvcreate -L10M -ntest system lvcreate -- rounding size up to physical extent boundary lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "system" lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/system/test" successfully created trider-g7:/tmp/X# as you can see there was no problem at all "unfortunatly". Regards Fabio Riley Williams wrote: >Hi Fabio. > > > >>this happend creating a new a lv with the command lvcreate -L512M >>-ntest system It did 3 times in a row then it worked again. What was >>strange is that I was in one dir and unfortunalty I don't remember >>which and it was crashing. I changed dir and then it was working. In >>the first instance I didn't thought about taking notes but atleast I >>have a full trace (the machine didn't hang or reboot... it is still >>alive 100%). >> >> > >This may be completely off-track but I've seen it cause wierd problems >in the past, so worth checking - was the directory you were in when the >machine crashed one that still existed as far as the file system was >concerned? > > >