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FromMarc-Christian Petersen <>
SubjectRe: LVM Snapshots
DateThu, 16 Oct 2003 11:28:23 +0200
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:53, Philippe Troin wrote:

Hi Philippe,

> Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> writes:
> > 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.
>
> What was the reason? I cannot find this thread in the archives...

it was a private mail. Pasting relevant stuff:

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Re: Patches
Date: 01.09.2003 03:42
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, Alan Cox 
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> I just want to know what's wrong with these patches I've sent to you:
> 
> 
> - [PATCH 2.4.23-pre1] lowlatency fixes -12
Want to add Andreas VM stuff first.

> 
> - [PATCH 2.4.23-pre1] LVM 1.0.7 ADDON: Allow snapshots on journaling
>                                        filesystems

LVM has already been updated on 2.4.23-pre. Lets do more changes later on.

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ciao , Marc


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