On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:47:24AM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > When a user has their root filesystem on an LV and attempts to resize > the LV, the kernel will deadlock while trying to update the atime on the > device node. Indeed, and if you push harder you'll probably find some trickier problems there too. This is one of the reasons I've said numerous times we don't support pvmove/snapshots of the devices used by the tools themselves. I shall add a test to the tools to detect when people do this. [See also the old 2.4 kernel patch included in the source tree (but not applied by default) which disables the relevant *time updates - write as well as read. I've not had time to look at equivalents for 2.6 yet.] The way I envisage snapshots/pvmoves being supported most safely is by using temporary copies of the relevant inodes on a filesystem that does not get suspended. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.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/
