encountering a puzzling situation. dmsetup is failing to return. root@superior:/mnt/backup# dmsetup status sdg: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdf: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sde: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdd: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdc: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdb: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 dmsetup remove sdg runs for hours. Canceled it, ran dmsetup ls --tree and find that sdg is not present in the list. dmsetup status shows: sdf: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sde: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdd: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdc: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 sdb: 0 5860533168 snapshot 16/8388608000 16 dmsetup ls --tree root@superior:/mnt/backup# dmsetup ls --tree sdf (253:3) ├─ (7:3) └─ (8:80) sde (253:1) ├─ (7:1) └─ (8:64) sdd (253:2) ├─ (7:2) └─ (8:48) sdc (253:0) ├─ (7:0) └─ (8:32) sdb (253:5) ├─ (7:5) └─ (8:16) any suggestions? On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 2:03 PM Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 30/08/2022 14:27, Peter Sanders wrote: > > > > And the victory conditions would be a mountable file system that passes a fsck? > > Yes. Just make sure you delve through the file system a bit and satisfy > yourself it looks good, too ... > > Cheers, > Wol
