VFS-Lock patch

VFS-Lock patch

[Alex Adriaanse]

Hi,

I'm just curious, is there any reason why the VFS-lock patch provided by the
LVM people has not been included into the 2.4.x tree yet?

If I were to apply this patch to a stock 2.4.20 kernel, is it safe to use
LVM snapshots with ReiserFS on production machines, or are there any
stability issues with it (either with the LVM version that comes with
2.4.20, or upgrading to LVM 1.0.7)?

Thanks,

Alex

Re: VFS-Lock patch

[James Bourne]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alex Adriaanse wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm just curious, is there any reason why the VFS-lock patch provided by the
> LVM people has not been included into the 2.4.x tree yet?
> 
> If I were to apply this patch to a stock 2.4.20 kernel, is it safe to use
> LVM snapshots with ReiserFS on production machines, or are there any
> stability issues with it (either with the LVM version that comes with
> 2.4.20, or upgrading to LVM 1.0.7)?

Hi,
We have been using this in production for some time, with all the 2.4
kernels since 2.4.17 and it has been stable.  Our version is at

http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20

You will have to follow the patch-order file and make sure to apply the ext3
patch first as it will be required to use the LVM patch.

BTW, we are still using LVM version 1.0.5.

Regards
James Bourne

> Thanks,
> 
> Alex

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