Re: xfs and lvm snapshot

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Knollmueller Stefan wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> we got the problem that our xfs system on a logical volume that is on a
> software-raid 5 partition hangs during a snapshot.
> we used kernel 2.4.7-xfs and 2.4.8-xfs and always the same error
> occured. fixing the filesystem with xfs_repair is no problem after
> rebooting but does anybody know why lvmsnapshot hangs the whole system?

Can you use kdb to get a backtrace and see what's going on when the
system hangs?

-Eric