Philipp Cain wrote:
> Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>>Philipp Cain wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>are their plans to release the RHEL4 erratum packages for lvm2
>>>(lvm2-2.02.01-1.3.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm etc.) mentioned in RHBA-2006:0137-9
>>>also for SL 4.2 ?
>>>
>>>After uprading to the latest kernel release I encountered severe
>>>problems with lvm snapshots which might/should be solved with
>>>lvm2-2.02.01.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>    Philipp.
>>
>>Hi Philipp,
>>Since that wasn't a security errata, but a bug fix, we hadn't planned
>>on putting it in with the security errata.
>>But if one of our security errata's (the kernel) causes the need to
>>upgrade lvm2, then we can think of putting it in.
>>
>>It's currently in the rolling area
>>ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/lvm2-2.02.01-1.3.RHEL4.i386.rpm
>>
>>
>>Can you install it and find out if indeed, it fixes your problem.
>>Also, were you having this problem before you upgraded the kernel?
>>
>>Troy
> 
> Hi Troy,
> 
> I installed lvm2-2.02.01 together with the new device-mapper rpm from
> 40rolling.
> The problem, which didn't occur before upgrading from kernel
> 2.6.9-22.0.1 to 2.6.9-34, is fixed now.
> 
> Some background info:  During our daily backup of a data partition an
> LVM snapshot is created. With the new kernel 2.6.9-34 the removal of the
> snapshot failed - lvremove hangs, system load is increasing rapidly.
> The reason seems to be a change in the kernel lvm support that requires
> new lvm tools  (see eg.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168824).
> 
> Philipp.

Thanks for the info.
I'm not seeing device-mapper as part of the bugfix.  Was this just a 
dependancy or did I miss something in the bugzilla report?
Troy
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