I've upgraded my x86_64 4.2 box to the latest kernel 2.6.9.34 and tried
an lvm snapshot. It worked fine and I was able to mount the snapshot
etc. Now I cannot seem to remove the snapshot. If I try a 'lvremove'
it asks if I want to remove the 'active' snapshot, if I say yes it just
hangs and the box goes to 99% wait io, however the disk lights do not
come on during this. The lvremove process is not straceable so I've got
no idea whats going on with it.
Luckily I chose to snapshot /tmp so it is not a show stopper. What I
did to get around it was to comment out my tmp lv from fstab and just
allow /tmp to be part of the root filesystem on the root lv. I
deliberately filled up the snapshot so that it was marked inactive but
it still thinks it is active when I run the lvremove command again. I
also tried to lvremove the tmp lv, not the snapshot, and it said it
couldnt remove the lv while there was a snapshot.
I found a thread on the forums where Karanbir Singh states that this
sort of thing was broken in early 4 series but may work in 4.3.
Does anyone know how I can clean this up ?
Cheers,
Bards.
