-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:03:32PM +0800, bowen zheng wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: bowen zheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006-9-27 ????1:03 > Subject: Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, > but then lvcreate hang. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then > lvcreate hang. > > I use lvm2 and xfs both. If I do not use xfs_freeze before, I can use > lvcreate snapshot the lv. And it work fine for some static files or > lv, but not for running system such as / (root) which will generate a > log of I/O error. > > So I heard that xfs should run xfs_freeze before create snapshot. > However, after xfs_freeze -f, then lvcreate hang all the time. And I > still can not kill (-9) the lvcreate process. > > Anyone know what can I do now ??? > And how to use snapshot under xfs, is this a xfs or lvm bug ??? do you have /dev on the root partition? to my expicience xfs_freeze -f halts all write operations on the partition and lvcreate wants to write to the device and create one, apart from the log/backup of the lvm metadata...
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