From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265578AbUBBCpJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:45:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265590AbUBBCpJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:45:09 -0500 Received: from smtp14.eresmas.com ([62.81.235.114]:20683 "EHLO smtp14.eresmas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265578AbUBBCpF (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:45:05 -0500 Message-ID: <401DB9A7.4030104@wanadoo.es> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 03:44:55 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mauelshagen@sistina.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25--pre4 VFS lvm_snapshots Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The patch still doesn't get better by that. And even if it was this > would clearly be a feature for 2.6, not 2.4. Without this patch there is no warranty that a LVM_snapshot is updated like the FS that is trying to replicate. DANGER !!! I only see one solution: to stop FS IO, and then # sync; sync; sync; lvcreate -s ... Maybe it's needed to write, in the code or a doc, some warning about this or to put a pointer to this patch :-? -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's bug free.