[linux-lvm] Archive Question

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:26:58PM -0700, John DeFranco wrote:
> /etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm 
> issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts
> that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in 
> parallel.
 
And you have default locking enabled?
  locking_type = 1  locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm"
  in lvm.conf with /var also local

Perhaps there's some race in the backup file code:
It would be useful to have a list of all the lvm commands that might
possibly be executing against each other.

Alasdair
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