[linux-lvm] Re: Unable to get XFS, ext3, reiserfs & LVM to coexist happily

Adrian Head ahead at bigpond.net.au
Thu Jan 10 15:21:02 UTC 2002


On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:27, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
>
> When a snapshot gets full it can no longer be valid so LVM makes it
> inactive and fails any further I/O to it.
>
> Because there's no more space for copy-on-write operations into the
> snapshot there's no way the filesystem can be consistent. OK this isn't
> that nice but it's arguably better than returning corrupted data.

Thanks Patrick for you response.  If this is the correct behaviour then 
everything is fine.  I just asked so I could find out.  :-)

Everything looks mighty fine.  Thanks everyone for your time and effort.

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Adrian Head

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