[linux-lvm] Snapshot resizing bug (LVM1)

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Thu Feb 6 12:45:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:02:39PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" wrote:
> > 
> > Dale,
> > 
> > thanks for finding this bug.
> 
> yeah, thanks from me too, i plan to TEST it.

Good :)

Please checkout from MAIN.
We reverted 1.0.6 as mentioned in my other email today.

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> > Obviously people don't resize populated snapshots very often or we'ld
> > seen this one much earlier ;)
> 
> thats not true. I tried to resize polulated snapshots quite often, like
> several times a day, but i gave up on that because it didnt work. Being
> production machines they need to be stable.
> So, why didnt i report the bug well... i didnt feel i had the time to
> play arround with our production machines, and i have nowhere to test
> it, so i just stopped doing snapshots. But i did email this mailing list
> and described the usage and the errors i got. Not a patch no, but i feel
> it was reported arround the end of october where i ran into it. Possibly
> someone else did it before me.
> See these links for more info:
> http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-October/012602.html
> 
> Okay, maybe i wasnt clear on reporting that problems continued after
> downgrading, sorry about that.
> http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-October/012631.html
> 
> 
> Not trying to sound negative and all it's great that this bug is gone,
> but i feel that the effects of this bug was seen before. Maybe what is
> needed is a better way to see what is bugs and what is
> missconfiguration.

Maybe we missed the report(s) ? :(
Anyway, it should be gone with your help.

Thanks,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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> JonB
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