On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:18:35PM -0500, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: > Good day, > > I'm trying to upgrade my kernel from LVM 1.0.3 to 1.0.7. My kernel with > 1.0.3 already has the VFS lock pactch installed and all I want to do is > upgrade the LVM code because my snapshots are misbehaving. I should not > have to re-patch to get the VFS-lock to work should I? > > The reason I ask is because when I just patch the kernel with LVM 1.0.7 > and reboot all my VG's/LV's come up clean, and I can create snapshots > but the snapshots do not mount. I get the: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/flux1/snap, > or too many mounted file systems > > error which would indicate to me that the VFS lock is not working with > my ext3 filesystem. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing > this problem? > > Red Hat kernel source RPM 2.4.18-26 > LVM 1.0.7 from the Sistina FTP site > If you've managed to successfully patch LVM into the kernel (and it sounds like you have), all that should be needed to enable VFS-Lock functionality is to uncomment the line in lvm.c that reads: /* #define LVM_VFS_ENHANCEMENT */ to be #define LVM_VFS_ENHANCEMENT and rebuild. patrick _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
