[linux-lvm] Kernel 2.4.12 bug?

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Wed Oct 24 05:38:02 UTC 2001


On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:11:40PM +0200, GCS wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:00:09AM +0100, Patrick Caulfield <caulfield at sistina.com> wrote:
> > Are you swapping onto the LV ? It seems that swapoff -a does not remove the LV
> > from the list of swap partitions, so vgchange -an would either fail or pull the
> > rug out from underneath the paging mechanism.
>  Not at all. LVM is on a 61.5Gb IBM disk, and my swapp is on a standard
> partition, on an other disk. Ok, it happens after I get 'swapp is turned off'
> message on the console. Thus if it is related to swapp, then it is a
> software bug somewhere, as my swapp is nothing to do with LVM. If you want,
> I can try my config without swapp. I mean remove it from fstab, reboot and see.

It was just a thought. I'd like to see more of the ksymoops output - I'm also
worried by the "Tainted" flag in the extract you posted last time.


> Also, do you have an idea for the boot time problem: buffer is busy message?

I know it's harmless....


patrick





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