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No LVM on loopback

No LVM on loopback

Posted Apr 24, 2008 20:32 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: No LVM on loopback by zlynx
Parent article: Benchmarking Linux filesystems on software RAID 1 (Lone Wolves)

It is, but still... the problem is apparently that the lvm tools don't 
lock themselves in memory, and there's a window where I/O to the snapshot 
origin is disabled. If the OS needs to page in the LVM tools at that 
point, deadlock.

(And that's only the known deadlock.)


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