Testing current rawhide... (LVM snapshots)

[Stuart Children]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 07:49, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > In particular, the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel is a new build and
> > could use hammering,
> 
> Are LVM snapshots with ext3 working now? I would test but I no
> environment to do so in at this exact moment.
> 
> They worked in RHL8.0, and having been broken in RHL9 the whole time.
> 
> I noticed that the taroon RHEL kernel got a fix from Tweedie for LVM
> snapshots on ext3 back in August.

I've no idea whether RH have applied the patch or not I'm afraid. However, 
in case you aren't aware of it already, the issue is described briefly 
here: 
http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20031027_238.html#4

In short, it's a general problem with journaled filesystms and lvm in 
current 2.4 kernels. There is a patch around (not linked from the above 
URL unfortunately). It hasn't been included in the mainstream kernel 
yet, but will be in a future release (after 2.4.23).

HTH

-- 
Stuart