thanks! so when is the RHEL4 Update 3 timescale? :) will try the patches u mentioned. ming On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:47 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:44:00PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > 1) very hard to solve technically. or > > 2) not so easy but doable, just no time and human resource? > > The hardest part of the fix involves changing the sequence of > device-mapper ioctls that LVM2 uses, and that's a couple of weeks' > development work, now pencilled into the RHEL4 Update 3 timescale. > > In the meantime, you can apply the snapshot patches in the -udm > tree and use 'dmsetup' manually to activate and deactivate snapshots > when lvm2 fails. > > Patches 8 and 9 at: > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-udm1/ > (Further patches are needed, but those two plus correct dmsetup use > should avoid machine lockups.) > > Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/
