See below: Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote: > Hi, Kenny! > > Kenny Gorman (kenny@kenamea.com) wrote 33 lines: > > >>I am utilizing LVM snapshots, and every once in a while I get this 'you >>must specify the filesystem type' error when trying to mount the volume: >> > >>mount: you must specify the filesystem type >> > > Mount could not mount the FS. > > >>But it only happens once in a while. >> > > So it's probably not an journalled FS (which needs a > kernel-patch for online snapshots). What does the system > log say? (dmesg, /var/log/messages or whereever) It's ReiserFS so it's journaled. Only once in a while to I get the error. Var log messages gives this error when I snapshot: Dec 10 10:57:43 ino kernel: fatfs: bogus logical sector size 0 Dec 10 10:57:43 ino kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 3a:01. Dec 10 10:57:44 ino kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 3a:01) ... Dec 10 10:57:44 ino kernel: Using r5 hash to sort names Dec 10 10:57:44 ino kernel: reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format Dec 10 10:57:44 ino kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25 funny thing tho, it works just fine most of the time. > > >>How can I rid myself of this >>issue? I am on SuSE Linux 7.2 (2.4.7-64GB-smp) with lvm 0.9.1 beta7. >> > > You may want to upgrade your Kernel and LVM-Tools to 1.0.1... > No guarantee that the snapshots will be any better, though. Yea, I should. thx.
