Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Unable to get XFS, ext3, reiserfs & LVM to coexist happily

[Adrian Head <ahead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The issue about lvm-1.0.1rc4 being more robust than lvm-1.0.1 when snapshot 
creation fails has been moved directly to linux-lvm.  For those who are 
interested you can find the thread here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-lvm&m=101029758204374&w=2

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:37, Adrian Head wrote:
> Andreas or any other LVM gurus,
>
> This is related to but not imeadiately concerned with the problem we have
> been discussing.
>
> When lvcreate dies when creating an XFS snapshot it doesn't finish the
> snapshot creation and although lvdisplay shows that the XFS lv has an
> active snapshot (shows even its name) lvdisplay tells me that the snapshot
> doesn't exist and therefore, cannot be removed.
>
> During the reboot the machine fails to run through the startup scripts and
> dies somewhere within mount.
>
> I have found that kernels without the lvm-1.0.1 upgrade patch are able to
> carry on and even fix the half created snapshot whereas kernels with the
> lvm-1.0.1 upgrade patch are unable to deal with the problem snapshot and
> just die.
>
> Are you aware of what this might be?
>
> And if this is going to be the default behaviour in future versions of LVM
> how would I recover using a lvm-1.0.1 patched kernel?
>
> Just interested
>
> Thanks

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Adrian Head

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