"Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>: > If reading the snapshot LV fails, let's go forward analyzing LVM, if not > there might be a reiserfs fix for that. Dear Heinz, A good new year to you! I've just some spare time :-) I created the snapshot as usual and let tar access the files: for i seq 1 20 do tar -cvf /dev/null /lvm-snapshot done after some time tar produces the following: tar: /lvm-snapshot/vollmer/.exmh/exmh_addrs: can not stat, permission denied (message translated by me from german) During that I did some work on the original (reading email and news, running some compile jobs, running some seti@home jobs). It seems to me, that when I modify or delete a file in the original, those files trigger the problem! (I just modified a Makefile and deleted a file and the next time tar visits that Makefile and the deleted file it was flagged with the above error message); The problem is reproducible. The files exists and are accessible in the original. ls -l /lvm-snapshot/vollmer/.exmh/ ls: /lvm-snapshot/vollmer/.exmh/exmh_addrs.bak: no permission ls: /lvm-snapshot/vollmer/.exmh/exmh_addrs: no permission insgesamt 34 -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 11282 2003-01-01 20:03 exmh-defaults -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 11115 2002-09-25 20:25 exmh-defaults~ drwxr-x--- 2 vollmer users 1872 2002-07-06 10:18 exmh-images/ -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 65 2001-01-19 11:09 exmh-shell-history -rw-r----- 1 vollmer users 1564 1999-10-27 23:45 exmhsedit The files seem to be in the directory catalog, but not in the filesystem anymore. Here the original: ls -l /home/vollmer/.exmh/ insgesamt 466 -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 11282 2003-01-01 20:03 exmh-defaults -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 11115 2002-09-25 20:25 exmh-defaults~ drwxr-x--- 2 vollmer users 1872 2002-07-06 10:18 exmh-images/ -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 65 2001-01-19 11:09 exmh-shell-history -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 220115 2003-01-04 17:20 exmh_addrs -rw-r--r-- 1 vollmer users 220115 2003-01-04 17:14 exmh_addrs.bak -rw-r----- 1 vollmer users 1564 1999-10-27 23:45 exmhsedit Currently I use a SuSe 8.1 system with the actual (i.e. patch-40) kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next. I use an SMP System (2 x XENON 2GHz, 1GB RAM) with 4 SCSI devices. Three of them under control of LVM. As filesystem I use reiserfs ReiserFS version: $ mkreiserfs -h mkreiserfs 3.6.2 (2002) LVM version: $lvcreate --version lvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.5(mp-v6) Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 15/07/2002 (IOP 10) Do you need more information, how can I help to find the problem. With best regards Jürgen -- Dr.rer.nat. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsruhe Tel: +49(721) 9204871 Fax: +49(721) 24874 juergen@informatik-vollmer.de,vollmer@cocolab.de,Juergen.Vollmer@acm.org www.informatik-vollmer.de
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