More info:
I went to another shell session and did a xfs_freeze -u /config and the initial
lvcreate finished fine.
So that answers my second question.
Thanks
Greg
>> 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
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>> Greg Freemyer
>> Internet Engineer
>> Deployment and Integration Specialist
>> Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
>> Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
>> The Norcross Group
>> www.NorcrossGroup.com
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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