I have been trying to use LVM on what started out as a standard red-hat 9 system. The supplied kernel had problems with out network card and DHCP, so I am now attempting to use a stock 2.4.20 kernel patched with lvm-1.0.7. Everything works fine except that I cannot make a snapshot of a mounted ext3 filesystem. When I attempt to mount the snapshot (readonly) I get:- mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vga/addon.backup, or too many mounted file systems I get the same problem with reiserfs, but not with ext2. Searching the list archive suggests that I need the VFS-lock patch. I presume this is already included in the patch-set I build as part of the LVM installation (applying this patch separately after the generated LVM patch breaks the kernel, leaving me with unresolved reverences to fsync_dev_lockfs and unlockfs). What should I try next? Chris Ritson (Computing Officer) Rm 618, Claremont Bridge, EMAIL: C.R.Ritson@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, PHONE: +44 191 222 8175 University of Newcastle, FAX : +44 191 222 8232 Newcastle on Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~c.r.ritson/ _______________________________________________ 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/