Re: Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

[Alexander Nyberg]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200 Ludovic Drolez wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> We are developing (GPLed) disk cloning software similar to partimage: it's 
> an intelligent 'dd' which backups only used sectors.
> 
> Recently I added LVM1/2 support to it, and sometimes we saw LVM 
> restorations failing randomly (Disk images are not corrupted, but the 
> result of the restoration can be lead to a corrupted filesystem). If a 
> restoration fails, just try another one and it will work...
> 

Please upgrade to 2.6.12.6 (I don't remember exactly in which
2.6.12.x it went in), it contains a bugfix that should fix what
you are seeing. 2.6.13 also has this.
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