Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7GJRoRw031187 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:27:50 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7GJRoX5031186 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:27:50 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from imf18bis.bellsouth.net (mail118.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.58]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7GJRdRw031137 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:27:40 -0700 Received: from TAZ2 ([66.156.4.66]) by imf18bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with SMTP id <20020816193015.CWMG18137.imf18bis.bellsouth.net@TAZ2>; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:30:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:29:05 -0400 From: Greg Freemyer Subject: re: 2 freeze/snapshot questions To: Greg Freemyer , Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: The NorcrossGroup X-Mailer: GoldMine [5.70.11111] Content-Type: Text/plain Message-Id: <20020816193015.CWMG18137.imf18bis.bellsouth.net@TAZ2> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by oss.sgi.com id g7GJReRw031156 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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 >> ======= >> 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