backups

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Sep 22 18:44:39 UTC 2004


russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) writes:

>> LVM snapshots are not usably at the moment: for kernel 2.4 they work with
>> a kernel patch only, and for kernel 2.6 they are marked as experimental
>> which is confirmed by my experiences (kernel-panics on creation and manual
>> cleanup required).
>
> FC2 has kernel 2.6 but doesn't have snapshot support.
>
> FC3 has snapshot support, I've just been using it and it works for me.  Can 
> you file bug reports about any LVM oops you can get with a Fedora
> kernel?

Sorry; the FC3 kernel is missing some features so that I have to use the
vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel + some patches. FWIW, the stacktrace from the
kernel oops is

| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel: lvcreate: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0xd0
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [dump_stack+30/32] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c0105eee>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [__alloc_pages+739/784] __alloc_pages+0x2e3/0x310
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c0147723>] __alloc_pages+0x2e3/0x310
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [alloc_pl+52/96] alloc_pl+0x34/0x60
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c0280914>] alloc_pl+0x34/0x60
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [client_alloc_pages+37/112] client_alloc_pages+0x25/0x70
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c0280aa5>] client_alloc_pages+0x25/0x70
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [kcopyd_client_create+101/192] kcopyd_client_create+0x65/0xc0
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c02816d5>] kcopyd_client_create+0x65/0xc0
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [pg0+140642617/1069535232] snapshot_ctr+0x329/0x3c0 [dm_snapshot]
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [<c8a21939>] snapshot_ctr+0x329/0x3c0 [dm_snapshot]
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn udev[2296]: PROGRAM execution of '/sbin/devmap_name 254 5' failed
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn udev[2297]: PROGRAM execution of '/sbin/devmap_name 254 6' failed
| Sep 22 04:44:18 delenn kernel:  [dm_table_add_target+315/496] dm_table_add_target+0x13b/0x1f0
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2296]: creating device node '/dev/dm-5'
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2297]: creating device node '/dev/dm-6'
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c027c2db>] dm_table_add_target+0x13b/0x1f0
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2314]: PROGRAM execution of '/sbin/devmap_name 254 7' failed
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2258]: PROGRAM execution of '/sbin/devmap_name 254 4' failed
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [populate_table+142/240] populate_table+0x8e/0xf0
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2314]: creating device node '/dev/dm-7'
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn udev[2258]: creating device node '/dev/dm-4'
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c027edce>] populate_table+0x8e/0xf0
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [table_load+102/336] table_load+0x66/0x150
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c027ee96>] table_load+0x66/0x150
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [ctl_ioctl+222/320] ctl_ioctl+0xde/0x140
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c027f70e>] ctl_ioctl+0xde/0x140
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [sys_ioctl+530/1088] sys_ioctl+0x212/0x440
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c0176cd2>] sys_ioctl+0x212/0x440
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel:  [<c010510b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel: device-mapper: : Could not create kcopyd client
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel: 
| Sep 22 04:44:19 delenn kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table

It happens perhaps once per week (2 snapshots per day) and is not
reproducible.




Enrico





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