On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:16:24PM +0200, Antoine wrote: > > Hi again, > > Well, I've found out. The problem was the snapshot had been created > while the original volume had the "needs_recovery" flag set. If I > destroy the snapshot and recreate it when the original volume doesn't > have this flag, then I can mount the snapshot. > > Now the remaining problem is that, _as soon as_ the original ext3 volume > is mounted, it has the "needs_recovery" flag. That means I cannot create > a usable snapshot volume without first unmounting the original volume > (because otherwise I won't be able to mount the snapshot volume). Is > there a way to work around this, so as to make snapshots without taking > anything down ? Would a writeable snapshot help ? Since you would be able to change the needs_recovery flag specifically on the snapshot. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
