Re: xfs and lvm snapshots

[Jan Derfinak <ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Alexander Fisher wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm currently trying to write a backup script for my system.  I have a
> number of XFS filesystems on top of LVM2, on top of RAID 1.
> The idea is to snapshot the logical volumes and then use xfsdump to
> perform incremental backups.  Unfortunately xfs_check finds problems
> with the snapshots that didn't exist on the original filesystems such
> as:

I think that if you snapshoting partiton mounted read-write, you get FS
which is not correctly unmounted. What happens if you mount snapshot
read-write and then unmount it?
 
jan

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