Hi, On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:49:37PM +0100, kreijack@earthling.net wrote: > I have apply the lvm-lock-patch ( linux-2.4.11-VFS-lock.patch ) , and _now_ I > can snapshot a ext3 filesystem whitout remounting-it ro. > # lvcreate --snap --name snap --size +1G /dev/vgtest/lvtest > # mount -o ro -t ext3 /dev/vgtest /snap /mnt/snap > ext3 work fine. ext3 already has the support for LVM locking in 2.4.17; it's LVM which is missing the necessary patch, not ext3. Cheers, Stephen