On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Martin Petermann wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a SuSE Linux (V7.2) with a 2.4.4 kernel. If I start a program > which reads from a snapshot (e.g. cat /dev/vg/snapshot > /tmp/file) with a > low priority (nice -20), sometimes the program hangs within the > read() call if the snapshot gets full. If this is the case I'm not able to > kill the process of the application (even SIGKILL). In my application I > reduced the number of blocks in each read() call reads and I stop > reading after the snapshot is full of more then 90%. But this solution is > not completely avoiding the problem. > > Is there any fix in a newer kernel version? I think this is fixed in 1.0.1 - it certainly works for me on Linux 2.4.16 patrick
