[linux-lvm] Mounting ext3 snapshots

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:08:53PM -0700, Donald Thompson wrote:
> I'm trying to mount ext3 snapshot LV's, and having a bit of trouble. I
> could have sworn I read this become possible awhile back on one of the
> lists (maybe that was reiserfs?). Anyways I've attempted the following:
> 
> I'm using:
> debian 3.0
> mount 2.11n (debian package)
> LVM 1.0.1
> Kernel 2.4.18-pre7
> 
> I'm guessing I just have the wrong mount options...anyone have any
> pointers? TIA.
> 

You need to apply the VFS lock patch to the kernel. It's included in the LVM
source package.

patrick