[linux-lvm] Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS?
Patrick Caulfield
caulfield at sistina.com
Tue Jan 15 09:36:01 UTC 2002
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:16:15AM +1000, Adrian Head wrote:
> The issue was that when I tried to create an XFS snapshot it would Oops and
> the snapshot creation would not have been completed. The /dev/vg/lv entries
> would not be there; however, vgdisplay would show the snapshot as being in
> use but I could not remove the incomplete snapshot.
>
> When I would reboot using a lvm-1.0.1 kernel (2.4.17-xfs+lvm1.0.1) - the
> machine would hang during startup; however, if I used a lvm-1.0.1rc4(ish)
> kernel (2.4.16-xfs+lvm1.0.1rc4) it would fix the problem on the fly during
> bootup and the snapshot would be put in full operation without problems.
> This was the only way I found to get the machine up & running again.
>
> I don't have any info on which lines of code might have been the cause. I'm
> still learning how to dig in and dbug. ;-)
Looking at other threads in this list I think the issues are XFS related. I have
tried the latest XFS patches from
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17/
and the snapshots seem OK to me (that's without the VFS lock patch which XFS
doesn't seem to need anyway).
patrick
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