Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi,

Am Mo den  2. Nov 2009 um 20:37 schrieb Bastian Blank:
> > Concerning the severity, citing debian policy
> > (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html)
> > > critical
> > > makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break,
> > > or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems
> > > where you install the package.
> > Doubtlessly this is the case for more than one or two people. So please
> > stop playing the severity game and lets start fixing this bug. It's
> > original report is more than two years old now. Thank you.
> 
> This is up to the maintainer, something that have been explained already
> in this bug.

Yes. Unfortunately the maintainer seems to have the opinion that who is
using lvm snapshots is an idiot. (At least that is the impression that I
had about his opinion.)

> That is a good definition of a race condition. And a quick look around
> shows a Red Hat bug #496100[1], which references two commits that fixed
> it in 2.6.30.

That more than one step in the right direction. I supposed some like
this but didn't had the time to search in the kernel code.

I think I will give that patch a try and backport the patches to my
current kernel. (Time horizon weekend)

Regards
   Klaus
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