Greetings, I'm just getting started playing around with the lvm. I've used the HP-UX lvm, and was giving the Linux version a spin for the very first time when I ran into some big problems: Let me know if I'm doing something really stupid, but something tells me a kernel oops is not a good sign! An excerpt from the fateful session: ----------------------------------------------------- wintermute: /root (tty/dev/pts/0): bash: 1014 > lvcreate -L 2000 -s -n snap1 /dev/lxlvm/lvm1 lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "lxlvm" lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/lxlvm/snap1" successfully created wintermute: /root (tty/dev/pts/0): bash: 1015 > mount /dev/lxlvm/snap1 /snapshots/d1/ segmentation fault ------------------------------------------------------ The volume was not mounted. oops -> ksymoops follows: ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<d2887f31>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 0000178a ebx: d16d6570 ecx: d16d6400 edx: 00000000 esi: 0000178c edi: 00000002 ebp: 00000000 esp: d16d1c34 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process mount (pid: 2947, stackpage=d16d1000) Stack: d16d6570 0000178c 00000002 00000000 00000243 00000000 080566f4 000006f4 00000000 d2885fa2 d16d1cce d16d1cd0 0000178a d16d6400 d16beba0 00000002 000000e8 00000002 d16d0000 c0142f1c d288e000 0000090c c014424b 080566f4 Call Trace: [<d2885fa2>] [<c0142f1c>] [<d288e000>] [<c014424b>] [<c014367c>] [<d 288604b>] [<c01584e0>] [<c01586b3>] [<c01332db>] [<c0129259>] [<c011f4d7>] [<c011f554>] [<c011f6 d0>] [<c0110620>] [<c0110767>] [<c0110620>] [<c0129259>] [<c011f4d7>] [<c011f554>] [<c0136624>] [<c0136 133b53>] [<c012c41f>] [<c012c356>] [<c012ca5e>] [<c010a3ff>] Code: f7 b1 64 01 00 00 8b 44 24 2c 89 d3 8b 30 89 f7 29 df 89 f8 >>EIP; d2887f31 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+11/f4> <===== Trace; d2885fa2 <[lvm-mod]lvm_map+446/4b8> Trace; c0142f1c <padzero+1c/20> Trace; d288e000 <[lvm-mod]__module_using_checksums+2024/11084> Trace; c014424b <load_elf_binary+bcf/d50> Trace; c014367c <load_elf_binary+0/d50> Trace; d288604b <[lvm-mod]lvm_make_request_fn+f/18> Trace; c01584e0 <generic_make_request+b4/114> Trace; c01586b3 <ll_rw_block+173/1e8> Trace; c01332db <block_read+337/540> Trace; c0129259 <__alloc_pages+e1/2c8> Trace; c011f4d7 <do_anonymous_page+2f/7c> Trace; c011f554 <do_no_page+30/c4> Trace; c011f6d0 <handle_mm_fault+e8/164> Trace; c0110620 <do_page_fault+0/400> Trace; c0110767 <do_page_fault+147/400> Trace; c0110620 <do_page_fault+0/400> Trace; c0129259 <__alloc_pages+e1/2c8> Trace; c011f4d7 <do_anonymous_page+2f/7c> Trace; c011f554 <do_no_page+30/c4> Trace; c0136624 <cached_lookup+10/54> Trace; c0136f8f <path_walk+72b/80c> Trace; c0133b53 <blkdev_open+53/80> Trace; c012c41f <dentry_open+bf/14c> Trace; c012c356 <filp_open+52/5c> Trace; c012ca5e <sys_read+8e/c4> Trace; c010a3ff <system_call+33/38> Code; d2887f31 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+11/f4> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; d2887f31 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+11/f4> <===== 0: f7 b1 64 01 00 00 div 0x164(%ecx),%eax <===== Code; d2887f37 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+17/f4> 6: 8b 44 24 2c mov 0x2c(%esp,1),%eax Code; d2887f3b <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+1b/f4> a: 89 d3 mov %edx,%ebx Code; d2887f3d <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+1d/f4> c: 8b 30 mov (%eax),%esi Code; d2887f3f <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+1f/f4> e: 89 f7 mov %esi,%edi Code; d2887f41 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+21/f4> 10: 29 df sub %ebx,%edi Code; d2887f43 <[lvm-mod]lvm_snapshot_remap_block+23/f4> 12: 89 f8 mov %edi,%eax - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/