[linux-lvm] Re: Error on unmounting XFS LVM snapshot

Greg Freemyer freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup.com
Wed Oct 29 19:00:01 UTC 2003


> I did see this this today which appears to be the same issue:
> 
> http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20031027_238.html#4
> 
>  From Marcelo Tosatti[1]: "It seems its not safe to create snapshots of 
> journalled fs'es without this patch[2]."
> 
> Looks like the patch will show up in mainline in the 2.4.24-pre series.
> 
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106642797513724&w=2
> [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106623350522639&q=p3
> 
> Regards,
> Ronny

Is the above talking about the VFS_LOCK patch, or is there another patch
that should be applied?

Greg
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