From: Dr J Pelan (J.Pelan_at_gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 12:17:14 CEST
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:17:14 +0100 (BST) From: Dr J Pelan <J.Pelan@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101016030.7702@godel.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] sles10sp1: xfs + lvm + snapshot = Input/output error
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Norbert Paschedag wrote:
> we just stumbled over a problem with lvm snapshotting of xfs
> filesystems. Just creating a snapshot of a _mounted_ volume and then
> accessing the original filesystem creates an I/O error. Has anyone else
> seen this and knows a way to prevent this ?
Good catch. I'd just like to confirm that this problem is reproducable
here on a fully patched SLES10+SP1 test system (x86_64). It seems that
after a remount subsequent snapshots do not cause problems so there is a
workaround of sorts, but I would not deem this acceptable for production.
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