[linux-lvm] mounting reiserfs snapshot fails

Andreas Dilger adilger at turbolinux.com
Sat Apr 14 00:23:28 UTC 2001


Ed Tomlinson writes:
> Using debian sid, 2.4.3-ac5, lvm 0.91 beta7, with the vfs locking
> patch applied I get:
> 
> oscar# mount /dev/lv/snap /snap -t reiserfs -oro
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/lv/snap,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> When trying to mount the snap shot.  It was created with: 
> lvcreate -L 1G -s -n snap /dev/lv/root /dev/hdg1
> without problems

Are you sure that the VFS patch is applied, and that the LVM and
reiserfs code was compiled with "enable VFS patch" (whatever it is
called) enabled?  That has been a source of problems in the past.
The patch was applied, but you also need to enable it for both the
reiserfs and LVM code.

Cheers, Andreas
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