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SubjectRe: LVM Snapshots
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Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> writes:

> 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:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - [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.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Nothing technical then, Marcelo is just being slow for stability's
sake and easier testing. I guess that will go in somewhere in a later
23-pre or in 24.

Thanks for the info.

Phil.
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