[linux-lvm] snapshots and nfs

[Randall A. Jones]

Kristina Clair wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:44:49 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:36:06PM -0500, Kristina Clair wrote:
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>>>so, is there a way to have lvcreate not suspend the volume?  I'm using
>>>xfs, so I should be able to freeze the filesystem.
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>>Quick question: you're not running xfs_freeze are you?
>>If so, try without, as device-mapper does the equivalent of that
>>internally and xfs can't handle things if it gets run twice.
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>No, if I run xfs_freeze first, lvcreate hangs when it tries to suspend
>the volume, so I stopped doing that.
>Now, if I run lvcreate shortly after the machine is booted, it runs
>successfully.  However, if I try to run the same command the next day,
>after it's been online and the webservers have had the filesystem
>mounted, it hangs when trying to suspend the volume.
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Is it possible that mounting the NFS mounts on the webservers read-only 
as a temporary measure while creating the snapshot will help?

>So I'm wondering if the problem is that the webservers have the
>filesystem mounted and in use (apache is serving pages from it),  I'm
>trying to find a way to keep the filesystem mounted over nfs but still
>be able to create snapshots, and I was wondering if I could use
>xfs_freeze and have lvcreate not try to suspend the volume.
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>Thanks,
>Kristina
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