Re: [PROBLEM] Device-mapper snapshot metadata userspace breakage

[Juergen Kreileder]

Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> The commit aa14edeb994f8f7e223d02ad14780bf2fa719f6d "[PATCH] device-mapper
> snapshot: load metadata on creation" breaks userspace and is blocking us
> from moving to the 2.6.16 series kernel. Debian doesn't have the
> new required LVM version in stable yet. Is the change intentional?

I've made backports of newer tools for sarge[1].  But even with that
snapshots can't be removed reliable with 2.6.16, I get
'BUG at drivers/md/kcopyd.c:146'. (More info in
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0604.1/1643.html)


	Juergen

[1] http://blog.blackdown.de/2006/04/09/lvm-snapshots-with-debian-sarge-and-linux-2616/

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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
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