On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:58:28PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: > I tried reproducing this on my laptop, which also had an ext2 root and > was also running 2.6.0-test8. I ran the tune2fs -j (same version and > source as above) and updated /etc/fstab as before. Nothing seemed to > be breaking, so I went ahead and built 2.6.0-test9 in my homedir, > which is on a separate volume (/ and /boot are regular partitions; > /home, /usr and /var are lvm2 volumes. The other box has a similar > configuration.). When I ran make modules_install, messages of the > following form began streaming on the console: It is a brave man that uses 1K block filesystems with stacked devices; even /boot is 4K blocks on my machines. ;-p You might want to try the latest DM patches from Joe Thornber's site, http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/ and consult the dm-devel mail list archives. There have been a fairly steady stream of DM patches. Note that there is a small problem in 2.6.0-test9-dm3; the fix from Kevin Corry is below; see the dm-devel archives. Use s->chunk_size instead of chunk_size. The latter was modified earlier in snapshot_ctr. --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 29 Oct 2003 15:58:59 -0000 +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 31 Oct 2003 17:37:00 -0000 @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ } ti->private = s; - ti->split_io = chunk_size; + ti->split_io = s->chunk_size; return 0; bad6: I haven't had a chance to try it out myself. Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
