From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85 Description of problem: The Redhat kernel is missing the LVM VFS-Lock patch which prevents snapshots of journalled filesystems from being mountable. One of the major advantages to LVM is the ability to do snapshots (for backups among other things.) The VFS-Lock patch is well tested and used widely. It is in consideration for 2.4 inclusion (though Marcelo may have some objections.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-20.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an LVM vg 2. Create an LVM pv 3. Create an ext3 fs on said PV 4. Snapshot the PV 5. Try to mount the snapshot Actual Results: mount complains the filesystem is in a bad state and cannot be mounted. Since the snapshot is r/o at the volume level we're SOL Expected Results: file system should mount it without complaint Additional info:
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