[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#471545: Bug#471545: schroot: Access out of device boundaries in lvm snapshots

[Stephan Suerken]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 00:12 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Stephan A Suerken <absurd at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > using schroot in sid (or etch), it is easy to create a configuration
> > that writes out of device boundaries (while I guess the real problem is
> > in device mapper); on a 2.6.24 system, it freezed the whole system (no
> > logs available ;), on other kernels (my also depend on lvm setup;) it
> > "only" corrupts the fs.
> 
> schroot only calls the "lvcreate" command, as you could do from the
> command-line, and then mounts the newly-created device.  I don't think
> I can do much about this problem in schroot--as you point out, it is a
> problem in device-mapper.
> 
> I can really only suggest that this bug be reassigned to either the
> lvm2 package, or (more likely) the kernel--a hard lock up if a serious
> bug.

Ok, thx for the info; I will try to track the problem down later (i.e.,
after easter), and deal with the bug then...

MfG,

Stephan
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Stephan A Suerken <absurd at olurdix.de>