[linux-lvm] Continued error with snapshots (unable to init journal)

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:06:10PM -0800, Kenny Gorman wrote:
> I posted before, but since I have upgraded my SuSE 2.4.7-64GB system to 
> include reiserfs-3.x.0k_pre9-43 and lvm-1.0.0.2_rc2-27.  I am still 
> getting the below error in /var/log/messages every once in a while 
> during mount of the snapshot volume.
> 
> Does anyone know what this is about?
> 
> Dec 11 18:20:02 ino kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 
> 3a:01) ...
> Dec 11 18:20:02 ino kernel: clm-2076: device is readonly, unable to 
> replay log
> Dec 11 18:20:02 ino kernel: Replay Failure, unable to mount
> Dec 11 18:20:02 ino kernel: reiserfs_read_super: unable to initialize 
> journal space

You need to apply the VFS lock patch to the kernel after patching it for LVM.

patrick