[linux-lvm] mounting reiserfs snaphost fails

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Fri Oct 4 03:58:58 UTC 2002


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:20:51AM +0200, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > 
> > "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" wrote:
> > >
> > > Did you put the VFS lock patch in?
> > > You need that to be able to mount snapshots of *journaled* filesystems.
> > 
> > Where do i find that patch ?
> > Does 2.4.19 contain it ? does the latest kernel, if 2.4.19 isnt the
> > latest ?
> 
> never mind, i did a cvs checkout, and made a patch for the linux kernel.
> i believe it included the VFS-LOCK.patch (did a make in the PATCHES
> subdir)
> 
> Do i need to update the LVM tools, or can i use default debian woody
> tools
> and still get this effect ?

No, they should run fine because the VFS lock patch is just a kernel thing
transparent to user space.

> 
> 
> 
> JonB
> 
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