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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:55:38PM -0600, David Everly wrote: > Good news! This patch worked. > > Now that you know what is going on, I would like to see what you think > about the relative severity of this issue would be. > > Obviously in relation to grub, one can just use lilo instead without too > much discomfort. > > But the reason I pursued this is that perhaps this affected people's > backups if they were using a tool that expected xfs_freeze to flush > everything completely so that when the backup tool read from the raw > device, it would be a sane backup image. Do you agree that this is the > effect of this freeze issue?Yes, this should be fixes mostly for lvm snapshots. grub is still buggy with or without this patch, with a fully working snapshot we just work around it's braindamage enough to make it actually work. > FYI, these are the Debian bugs that I know are open on the topic: > > http://bugs.debian.org/306966 > http://bugs.debian.org/239111 > http://bugs.debian.org/243835 > http://bugs.debian.org/246111 I'll take a look
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