On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:34:01PM -0500, Eugenio Diaz wrote: > After reading what Linus had to say about dump backups on live > filesystems, and since I don't want to unmount my filesystems (on my > home machine of course) during backup, I considered the snapshot > feature of LVM. Also I was already using lvm, so no problem there. > > Anyway, I was able to create the snapshot volume, but was not able to > mount it. Doing some research I traced this back to line #233 of file > "/usr/src/linux/drivers/md/lvm.c". This define of symbol > "LVM_VFS_ENHANCEMENT" needs to be uncommented for the lvm snapshot > feature to work. I recompiled the kernel rpm with this line uncommented, > and it works great with no problems so far. > > I think this should be activated by default since it is, by far, the > easiest way of making proper backups of live filesystems.
You will want to go vote for bug 1320 at: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=1320 to show your interest in this being fixed. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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