Hello: Sometimes, but not always, I am unable to mount a snapshot. When it fails, I see the following lines in my logs... kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 3a:06) ... kernel: clm-2076: device is readonly, unable to replay log kernel: Replay Failure, unable to mount kernel: reiserfs_read_super: unable to initialize journal space I am using RedHat 9 with the following stock packages: kernel-smp-2.4.20-30.9 lvm-1.0.3-12 reiserfs-utils-3.6.4-5 I have not tried the combination of snapshots & reiserfs with earlier RedHat packages so I don't know if this is a regression. After some STFW, I thought I might need a "VFS lock" patch. However, it looks like this was already included by RedHat... in kernel-smp-2.4.20-30.9.src.rpm there is already this patch: linux-2.4.18-lvm-VFSlock.patch. Is there anything else I can try or look at? Also, is it necessary that the filesystem be quiescent in order to create a snapshot? I could temporarily remount readonly to create the snapshot, but I would like not to have to do that. Thanks and regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman@lightlink.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/
