Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

Ján Kľuka Jan.Kluka at fmph.uniba.sk
Thu Sep 24 14:02:34 UTC 2009


Another "me-too": We have been hit by what I believe is this bug.

We use LVM2 on top of MD (RAID1) and take snapshots of logical volumes  
for backup. After a recent long-overdue upgrade to lenny, the very  
first backup of /home (residing on its own logical volume) hung during  
snapshot creation. Since the filesystem is xfs which has to be frozen  
during snapshot creation, the whole system became unstable. Processes  
remained blocked even after xfs was unfrozen, and could not be killed.  
The only option was to hard-reset the box.

Perhaps xfs freezing (why is it necessary on a journaled filesystem  
anyway?!) contributed to the damage. Nevertheless, snapshot creation  
hang is a real problem, and has nothing to do with LVM2 deadlocking  
itself when backing up configuration to /var. Also, it never happened  
in 2.6.18 back in etch.





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