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

[Ronny Adsetts]

Greg Freemyer said the following on 30/10/03 00:50:

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

It appears to be the VFS lock patch, but I'm no kernel guru...

Regards,
Ronny