Hi, I have 2.4.20-openmosix kernel installed and LVM compiled into the kernel. I have VG data in which I have /home and /var partitions as LVs. Now I had some 700 MB of unpartitioned space in that VG I planned to use for snapshots to backup my data. Of course this was a good idea, but bad result. What i did: I created a snapshot volume: lvcreate -l 23 -s -n backup /dev/data/home and mounted it into /mnt/bkp/home. Then I backed it up using rsync. All was still fine. This is the good part, I've got backups. Now I tried to remove the lv and all #$* broke loose. lvremove seg faulted. I'm using LVM tools version 1.0.7. It did remove the special device from the /dev/data but did not free the space allocated for it in the VG. Also lot's of tools seem to hang and always because of the following: lvm_get_iop_version -- LEAVING with ret: 10 which according to man pages indicates 10 error removing logical volume from kernel Now it seems my metadata is corrupted but I do have backups in /etc/lvmconf. But you can't do vgcfgrestore while VG is active. And vgchange will hang because of the above. So I take it, it won't reboot either. I have /home shared by nfs. Might that be the prob? I'm totally puzzled, any help is appreciated. Please mail me since I don't subscribe the list, for now. _______________________________________________ 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/
