Thanks,
It is working now.
I don't have any idea what has changed.
I know it can't be a typo because I was using a script, and the script has not
changed.
I guess I need to put some kind of timeout logic around the create snapshot.
Thanks again
Greg
>> Greg - I used LVM a bit this week to fix a bug, and the snapshots were
>> working, at least as far as being able to create / mount / umount them.
>> I don't know what flavor of LVM or XFS is in the SuSE kernel you have...
>> but this is working for me with current CVS:
>> pvcreate /dev/sda2
>> vgcreate volgroup2 /dev/sda2
>> lvcreate -L500 -nlogicalvol2 volgroup2
>> mkfs.xfs -f -q /dev/volgroup2/logicalvol2
>> mount /dev/volgroup2/logicalvol2 /mnt/lvmtest/
>> xfs_freeze -f /mnt/lvmtest/
>> lvcreate -L500M -s -n snapshot2 /dev/volgroup2/logicalvol2
>> xfs_freeze -u /mnt/lvmtest/
>> -Eric
>> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 14:22, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm testing snapshots under xfs for the first time.
>> >
>> > I'm using LVM from the SuSE 8.0 release and a updated SuSE kernel that
>> was released at the end of July
>> >
>> > I tried a simple
>> > lvcreate --snapshot -L 25m --name config_snap /dev/VG1/config
>> > lvscan
>> > lvremove /dev/VG1/config_snap
>> >
>> > and it worked fine. (I only tried it once.)
>> >
>> > I just tried
>> > xfs_freeze -f /config
>> > lvcreate --snapshot -L 25m --name config_snap /dev/VG1/config
>> > xfs_freeze -u /config
>> > lvremove /dev/VG1/config_snap
>> >
>> > and the lvcreate command seems to be locked up. Also, a lvscan is now
>> core dumping with a segmentation fault.
>> >
>> > So I have 2 questions:
>> >
>> > Should the above work? And if not, what is the right way to do this?
>> >
>> > How can I get the lvcreate to terminate? I tried kill -9, but it had no
>> effect.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Greg
>> > =======
>> > Greg Freemyer
>> > Internet Engineer
>> > Deployment and Integration Specialist
>> > Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
>> > Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
>> > The Norcross Group
>> > www.NorcrossGroup.com
>> --
>> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
>> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc. 651-683-3102
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com
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