Re: Fwd: Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then lvcreate hang.
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:03:32PM +0800, bowen zheng wrote:
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> From: bowen zheng <linuzboy@gmail.com>
> Date: 2006-9-27 ????1:03
> Subject: Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this,
> but then lvcreate hang.
> To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
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>
> Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then
> lvcreate hang.
>
> I use lvm2 and xfs both. If I do not use xfs_freeze before, I can use
> lvcreate snapshot the lv. And it work fine for some static files or
> lv, but not for running system such as / (root) which will generate a
> log of I/O error.
>
> So I heard that xfs should run xfs_freeze before create snapshot.
> However, after xfs_freeze -f, then lvcreate hang all the time. And I
> still can not kill (-9) the lvcreate process.
>
> Anyone know what can I do now ???
> And how to use snapshot under xfs, is this a xfs or lvm bug ???
do you have /dev on the root partition?
to my expicience xfs_freeze -f halts all write operations on the
partition and lvcreate wants to write to the device and create one,
apart from the log/backup of the lvm metadata...
yours
Albert
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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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