On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:26:58PM -0700, John DeFranco wrote: > /etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm > issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts > that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in > parallel. And you have default locking enabled? locking_type = 1 locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm" in lvm.conf with /var also local Perhaps there's some race in the backup file code: It would be useful to have a list of all the lvm commands that might possibly be executing against each other. 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/