[linux-lvm] Single snapshots do weird things?

[Glen Harris]

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
 > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:12:15AM +1000, Glen Harris wrote:
 >
 >>Is it mandatory to sync the filesystem before taking a snapshot?
 >
 >
 > If you want the snapshot to be consistent: that's what the VFS lock patch
 > attempts to do automatically whenever you take a snapshot: presumably you
 > haven't applied that patch?
 >
 > Alasdair

Yes, I applied linux-2.4.21-VFS-lock.patch as well as the devmapper patch.
The behaviour is reproducable, I just did it again:

lvm:~# mount /dev/vg0/lv0 fs
[Several files/dirs exist, but not device-mapper.1.00.05.tgz]

lvm:~# lvcreate -s -L 8m --n snap0 /dev/vg0/lv0
lvm:~# mount /dev/vg0/snap0 snap/0
[Not there yet!]

lvm:~# cp /usr/src/device-mapper.1.00.05.tgz fs
lvm:~# lvcreate -s -L 8m --n snap1 /dev/vg0/lv0
lvm:~# mount /dev/vg0/snap1 snap/1
[Does *not* exist in the mounted snapshot filesystem]

lvm:~# sync
lvm:~# lvcreate -s -L 8m --n snap2 /dev/vg0/lv0
lvm:~# mount /dev/vg0/snap2 snap/2
[Ahhh! Now it exists in *this* mounted snapshot filesystem!]

Oh, and after the file appears in the final snapshot, it doesn't magically
appear in the previous one.

glen.

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