Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status
Cyril Brulebois writes ("Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status"):
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> (2013-12-02):
> > It will revert to throwaway chroots the minute LVM gets unbroken in
> > stable.
>
> What's the bug report for the issue you're mentioning?
Someone has already mentioned #659762. But looking at lvm's buglist
shows loads and loads of bugs related to snapshots. I and people I
know have experienced several different kinds of races with various
versions of lvm2 in stable and oldstable.
It seems that a big part of the problem is the design of the
interaction with udev. I haven't looked at the code but I have had a
handwaving explanation of the design from a friend who was digging
into the code to try to track down their own race bug. From that
explanation I concluded that the problem was a terrible design.
Personally, the main symptom I experience is that my netbook fills up
with stale snapshots which can't be removed. Stopping udev makes it
possible to remove them. I haven't reportded this bug because it
seems that the lvm2 bug list is absolutely full of reports of race
bugs.
Ian.
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