On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:15:37AM -0600, Ken Fuchs wrote: > I did the following to create a snapshot of an active filesystem to try > to make a consistent copy of it: > > # lvcreate --extents 30 --snapshot --name home2snap /dev/sys/home2gb > ... > lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for "/dev/sys/home\ > 2snap" > lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "sys" > lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/sys/home2snap" successfully created > > # lvdisplay /dev/sys/home2gb > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/sys/home2gb > VG Name sys > LV Write Access read/write > LV snapshot status source of > /dev/sys/home2snap [active] > Segmentation fault > # lvdisplay /dev/sys/home2gb > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/sys/home2gb > VG Name sys > LV Write Access read/write > LV snapshot status source of > /dev/sys/home2snap [active] > Segmentation fault > ecstasy:/# > > <At this point I lost my remote connection to the machine and presume it > crashed; it probably didn't reboot, since subsequent attempts to > reconnect via ssh failed and ping failed as well.> > > The kernel is probably 1.0.3 (Debian SPARC sun4u 2.4.21 up) and the lvm > tools are 1.0.8. > > Any suggestions for avoiding these seg faults and the system crash? Upgrade to an actual driver LVM version. You hit a list bug IRT snapshots. > > Sincerely, > > Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat, Inc. Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
