Alberto Picon Couselo wrote 42 lines: > Wolfgang, thank you very, very much for your advice. You are welcome. > Now, I'm able to create a snapshot and mount it, but I receive a strange > warning message (even if I mount it readonly): > $~# mount -t ext3 -r /dev/storage/snap /mnt/temporal/ > Can't write to read-only device 3a:04 > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > Can't write to read-only device 3a:04 > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Well ... it is saying: "Hey, this is a read-only fs!" twice. Once after mounting and once after starting the kernelthread for the journalling. Now, the snapshots are read-only :-) so the complaint is valid, but not impressive. I get even a few more warnings in my syslog (but none to STDOUT/STDERR): | kernel: Can't write to read-only device 3a:06 | kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds | kernel: EXT3-fs: lvm(58,6): orphan cleanup on readonly fs | kernel: ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 17 | kernel: ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 163842 | kernel: EXT3-fs: lvm(58,6): 2 orphan inodes deleted | kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete. | kernel: lvm - lvm_map: ll_rw_blk write for readonly LV /dev/base_vg/SNAP-test | last message repeated 10 times | kernel: Can't write to read-only device 3a:06 | last message repeated 2 times | kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Of course, the FS was not clean when I snap-shot it. (bang!) > Anyway, the snapshot is mounted and it's visible... So, it seems to > work... What's your opinion about this? AFAICT it works. -Wolfgang _______________________________________________ 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/