[linux-lvm] Re: LVM 2.2 snapshot bug

[Andreas Dilger]

Andrea writes:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > [..] reiserfs tries to update the journal header block on mount. [..]
> 
> So it does the same thing of ext3, I remeber we also discussed that design
> decision in the past and I remeber there are good reasons for that.
> 
> > Heinz and found the bug where is_read_only returns 0 for the snapshot
> 
> Oh, I didn't know you were just aware of it.
> 
> > volume while we were working on the snapshot api for journaled filesystems,
> > so this code got a lot of testing.

Chris, can you send me the API that you settled on, and I will add it into
ext3 and LVM 0.8final so that Rik can have a working system.

Cheers, Andreas
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