Re: LVM Snapshots

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 17:40, Christoph Pleger wrote:

Hi Christoph,

> I am using a 2.4.22 kernel from www.kernel.org together with an XFS
> patch from SGI. I want to use LVM for creating snapshots for backups,
> but I found out that I cannot mount the snapshots of journalling
> filesystems (EXT3, XFS, Reiser). Only JFS snapshots can be mounted.
> My research on internet gave the result that a kernel-patch must be used
> to solve that problem, but I could not find such a patch for Linux
> 2.4.22, so where can I get it?

Marcelo decided not to apply that needed patch. Here it is for you to play 
with :) ... It'll apply with offsets to 2.4.23-pre7.

ciao, Marc

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