Bug#241382: /sbin/lvmiopversion: Creating snapshots is broken
Patrick Caulfield <patrick@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:53:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Patrick Caulfield <patrick@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > This is a kernel problem - it either doesn't have snbapshot support for
> > > device-mapper or it's a very old buggy version.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > patrick
> >
> > Xu's fault it seems. This partial device-mapper support in the debian
> > kernel realy suck.
>
> To be fair, it's quite hard to find the best stable DM version -
> particularly if you want snapshots and/or mirroring. For those its
> currently best to get the latest patches and build your own kernel.
No, its dead easy: Build-Depends: kernel-patch-device-mapper
Andres Salomon (the maintainer) knows what he does and that knowledge
should be utilized in the kernel-images.
> http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/
>
> I'll reassign this to the kernel-image you're using anyway.
Done already.
MfG
Goswin
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