[linux-lvm] snapshots can't be deactivated

[Falko Zurell]

Hello list,

I have a strange behaviour on my snapshots.
I got a Ubuntu Server 7.04 with LVM2 setup:

lvm> version
   LVM version:     2.02.06 (2006-05-12)
   Library version: 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)
   Driver version:  4.11.0


I have two logical volumes I want to make snapshots of every night:

/dev/vg0/home with XFS
/dev/vg0/opt with XFS

These snapshots will be mounted read-only under /backup

So in principle the steps to achieve this should be:

  - unmount the snapshot from yesterday (umount /backup/home)
  - discard the snapshot from yesterday (lvremove -f
/dev/vg0/daily-snapshot-home)
  - freeze the filesystem (xfs_freeze -f /dev/vg0/home)
  - create the snapshot (lvcreate --snapshot --size 20G --name 
daily-snap-home -v /dev/vg0/home)
  - unfreeze the filesystem (xfs_freeze -u /dev/vg0/home)
  - mount the new snapshot ro (mount -oro,nouuid 
/dev/vg0/daily-snap-home /backup/home)


I wrote a script for that with some error checking too. But sometimes 
this doesn't work. The problem seems to be that the snapshot isn't 
removed even if "lvremove -f " sais it is removed. I got the following 
error message when I then recreate the snapshot:

root at konrad:~# ./create-snapshot-home.sh
+ /sbin/lvs
   LV              VG   Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%
   daily-snap-home vg0  swi-ao  20.00G home     0.00
   daily-snap-opt  vg0  swi-ao  20.00G opt      0.08
   home            vg0  owi-ao 100.00G
   opt             vg0  owi-ao 100.00G
   root            vg0  -wi-ao  10.00G
   video           vg0  -wi-ao 800.00G
+ /bin/umount -f /backup/home
+ /sbin/lvdisplay
+ grep /dev/vg0/daily-snap-home
                          /dev/vg0/daily-snap-home [active]
   LV Name                /dev/vg0/daily-snap-home
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ [ -b /dev/mapper/vg0-daily--snap--home ]
+ /sbin/lvremove -f /dev/vg0/daily-snap-home
   Logical volume "daily-snap-home" successfully removed
+ sleep 5
+ [ -b /dev/mapper/vg0-daily--snap--home ]
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze -f /home
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ /sbin/lvcreate --snapshot --size 20G --name daily-snap-home -v 
/dev/vg0/home
     Setting chunksize to 16 sectors.
     Finding volume group "vg0"
     Archiving volume group "vg0" metadata (seqno 116).
     Creating logical volume daily-snap-home
     Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg0" (seqno 117).
     Found volume group "vg0"
     Creating vg0-daily--snap--home
     Loading vg0-daily--snap--home table
     Resuming vg0-daily--snap--home (254:5)
     Clearing start of logical volume "daily-snap-home"
     Found volume group "vg0"
   LV vg0/daily-snap-home in use: not deactivating
   Couldn't deactivate new snapshot.
+ /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze -u /home
+ /bin/mount -oro,nouuid /dev/vg0/daily-snap-home /backup/home
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

I don't know why this happens. The script will work perfectly 3 out of 5 
times. But sometimes it comes up with the error above.

Are my steps right in principle? Did I forget to do something before or 
after removing?

Thanks and kind regards

-- 

Falko Zurell
Head of Application Management


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