Re: LVM snapshotting broken?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 15:34:48 EST


On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> it looks like the LVM snapshotting in 2.4 doesn't allow you
> to create snapshots from anything else than the _first_ LV
> in the VG...

OK, I reproduced it in 2.2 as well ... ;(

> I have run both the following command lines (after lvremoving
> snap1, of course) and both of them give as a result that the
> LV /dev/test_vg/swap ends up being the snapshotted filesystem ;(
>
> # lvcreate -s -L100 -nsnap1 /dev/test_vg/test
> # lvcreate -s -L100 -nsnap1 /dev/test_vg/swap
>
> # cat /proc/lvm
> LVM driver version 0.8final (15/02/2000)
>
> <snip VG/PV info>
>
> LVs: [AWDL ] swap 122880 /30 1x open
> [AWDL ] test 204800 /50 1x open
> [ARDL ] snap1 122880 /30 close
>
> It looks like somewhere in either the utilities or the
> kernel, the argument of which LV to snapshot gets mangled...
> Oh, I'm using version 0.8final of the LVM utities.
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
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