On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:27:13PM +0100, C R Ritson wrote: > The solution appears to be to apply the patches in the other order. To > create a kernel capable of making a snapshot of an active ext3 or > reiserfs volume, the drill appears to be to apply the VFS-lock patch for > the appropriate kernel version to the un-patched kernel tree, and only > THEN to apply the generated LVM patch. > > This makes me wonder if it would be possible to add this to the > configure script, so that I could say > > configure --with-VFS-lock Certainly doable but people still need to be told to set that option. We tried to have the VFS lock patch added to vanilla a couple of times but failed so far. Retrying... Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > I envisage makeing --with-ext3 and --with-reiserfs aliases for the > above. Just an idea. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: C R Ritson > > Sent: 09 May 2003 16:51 > > To: 'linux-lvm@sistina.com' > > Subject: stock kernel 2.4.20 + LVM 1.0.7 + ext3fs => snapshot problem? > > > > ... 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 > > > > ... applying this patch > > separately after the generated LVM patch breaks the kernel, > > leaving me with unresolved reverences to fsync_dev_lockfs and > > unlockfs. > > 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/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
