On 02/20/12 14:51, Mike Snitzer wrote:
I've never seen this. Which distro are you using?
Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit but with vanilla 3.0.3 kernel
Ubuntu's lvm:
# lvm version
LVM version: 2.02.66(2) (2010-05-20)
Library version: 1.02.48 (2010-05-20)
The "Snapshot cow pairing for exception table handover failed" is the
error path most commonly associated with the snapshot-merge feature.
Are you using snapshot-merge for the root LV (e.g. lvconvert --merge
...)? Mike
Absolutely not, never merged a snapshot in my life, and also the root of
the host was *not* on LVM.
Here is some more info:
Host machine had 2 PV, 2 VG (each of 1 PV), only one LV had only one
snapshot, more specifically:
PV1 (a MD raid) --> VG1 --> 5 x LVs used for virtual machines disks; of
these, only one LV had one snapshot. No other snapshots. None of these
volumes were mounted on the host. This is where the problem happened.
PV2 (a MD raid) --> VG2 --> 1 x LV , I don't remember if this was
mounted on the host at that time or was a disk for a virtual machine,
but anyway was not the root filesystem of the host. No snapshots here.
Root filesystem of the host was definitely *not* on LVM.
Unfortunately the machine where it happened is a production machine and
it's too dangerous to try to reproduce it there; this weekend I tried to
reproduce it elsewhere but clearly it didn't happen. I had a stack trace
of the DM hang but I lost it, stupid me...
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