On Friday, October 26, 2001 07:06:58 AM -0700 Aman Shahi <shahi_aman@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > I tried with both 2.4.12-ac5 and 2.4.12-ac6 yesterday. > Kernel compilation was giving error on alloc_kiovec > and free_kiovec in lvm-snap.c. I replaced them with > alloc_kiovec_sz and free_kiovec_sz and added one more > int pointer in the calls. I am not sure whether that > was proper, but I was able to compile the kernel. I > was using 2.4.11 VFS-lock patch as u said. > > But when using snapshot my Machine got hung. I tried > 2-3 times with both ac5 and ac6. But all the time the > machine got hund and FS got corrupted. > > What might have I done wrong ? Is this an SMP machine? What happens when you turn on the spinlock debugging (under the kernel debugging section in make menuconfig). -chris