Hello Peter, On Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:21, Peter Münster wrote:

Hello, when trying to create a snapshot with

lvcreate -L 700M -s -n snap-usr -p r /dev/system/usr

I get very often the following error:

LV system/snap-usr in use: not deactivating Couldn't deactivate new snapshot.

After googling, it seems to be a race condition when using udev with lvm. But I didn't really find a solution, especially for SuSE-10.1. Does anybody know more about this problem and the right way to solve this?

I saw the same behaviour with earlier versions of SUSE Linux (tested 9.3 with this problem), and made a bugzilla bug: 96808 I lost track with the 10.0, as I do not run a system with either version 10.0 or 10.1 with LVM snapshot needs. On 9.3 I could circumvent the problem by creating a snapshot of size 512M and lvresize it afterwards to the desired size. Yes, sometimes it is still not createable, but repeated trying succeeds. Addition: I just tried to create a snapshot of my /home LV on 10.1, and it blocks -> reboot :( Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Schmidt Network Manager International University Bremen From RFC1925: "Good, fast and cheap: choose any two (you can't have all three)!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org