Re: LVM Snapshots

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> 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.

Because the patch touches generic fs code.

Dont use LVM with XFS for now.



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