Re: [linux-lvm] LVM 2.2 snapshot bug

[Heinz Mauelshagen t-online de (Heinz J. Mauelshagen)]

Hi Rik,

this is already fixed in the LVM 0.9 source.

Thanks,
Heinz      -- The LVM guy --

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:55:42AM +0100, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I found an {easy to fix, very annoying} bug in the
> 2.2.<ver>aa derived kernel LVM drivers (which, most likely,
> is also in Heinz' drivers).
> 
> On snapshot creation, the snapshot block device (/dev/vg0/snap1)
> is NOT made a read-only device, so ext3 tries to do journal
> recovery when the snapshot device is mounted...
> 
> (leading to all kinds of nasty oopses)
> 
> It should be easy enough to do an set_device_ro() on the LVM
> snapshot, shouldn't it?

Yes, that's what i do in 0.9.

> 
> That would fix the oopses I've been seeing and would make
> the snapshot "more useful" ... I hope a fix will be available
> soon since I want to use this feature for NL.linux.org :)

I'll take care of that.

> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
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