On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:57:37PM +0100, Nix wrote: > Specifically, snapshot creation randomly fails if you've recently done > another LVM command. See if it's the usual udev problem: completely disable udev for your lvm devices. [Common problem is udev causing the device to be opened to look for a label - then lvm command fails because it needs exclusive access.] > original filesystem, since LVM maintains a snapshot percentage counter lvm2 doesn't maintain it, but while a device is active, kernel dm tells userspace lvm2 the percentage full. > This has not only not worked for no good reason (it's not in use! it's > brand new!) udev is probably using it. Old udev packages used to work OK, but something got changed - we never discovered what (ref. an old debian bug) - and this started to break. Some people at suse are working on a proper fix for this problem (so kernel will inform udev when device is usable, instead of udev running too early as it can now; udev will inform lvm2 when it has finished whatever pointless things it wants to do and lvm2 will wait for that message). 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/
