[CentOS] LVM Snapshots -broken ? Ever worked ?

[Bards1888]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:33 +1000, Bards1888 wrote:
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>>I've upgraded my x86_64 4.2 box to the latest kernel 2.6.9.34 and tried
>>an lvm snapshot. It worked fine and I was able to mount the snapshot
>>etc. Now I cannot seem to remove the snapshot.   If I try a 'lvremove'
>>it asks if I want to remove the 'active' snapshot, if I say yes it just
>>hangs and the box goes to 99% wait io, however the disk lights do not
>>come on during this. The lvremove process is not straceable so I've got
>>no idea whats going on with it.
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>>Luckily I  chose to snapshot /tmp so it is not a show stopper. What I
>>did to get around it was to comment out my tmp lv from fstab and just
>>allow /tmp to be part of the root filesystem on the root lv.  I
>>deliberately filled up the snapshot so that it was marked inactive but
>>it still thinks it is active when I run the lvremove command again. I
>>also tried to lvremove the tmp lv, not the snapshot, and it  said it
>>couldnt remove the lv while there was a snapshot.
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>>I found a thread on the forums where Karanbir Singh states that this
>>sort of thing was broken in early 4 series but may work in 4.3.
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>>Does anyone know how I can clean this up ?
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>>Cheers,
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>>Bards.
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>Hold off just a little bit and the entire 4.3 distro will come out with
>some new lvm tools (a couple days).  That might clear up your issue.
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Thanks Johnny. I managed to clear it up. See my follow up post.