On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Philip Spencer wrote: > You know what -- I went back and double-checked all the logs, and somehow > or other I must have recorded a timestamp wrong as 3:19:21 instead of > 3:19:51. > > The segfault did in fact happen at 3:19:51 a.m. which is exactly the same > time as my backup script moved on to the next filesystem. > > So, it occurred during the unmount and lvremove of the snapshot volume. > It is, then, entirely expected that the device-mapper routines would return > an error if the device no longer existed when the task was run. > > My apologies for mixing up the timestamps! And no bug in device-mapper, > just the one in e2fsprogs whch segfaulted in this circumstance instead of > dropping the device from its list. Having it fail outright, and not list > the device at all, is the correct behaviour for this situation -- just as > if the device had already been removed before the blkid routines were run. OK, that's helpful, to know. Thanks!!! - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
