On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Arnd Hannemann <a...@arndnet.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using btrfs with LVM snapshots seems to be confusing /proc/mounts
> After mounting a snapshot of an original filesystem, the devicename of the
> original filesystem is overwritten with that of the snapshot in /proc/mounts.

If the lvm snapshot is visible to btrfs (i.e., btrfs dev scan), it
will appear as another device which belongs to the original filesystem
with a duplicate devid.  This might result in bad things happening, or
possibly just hilarity.

You have a backup that isn't just an lvm snapshot, right?
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