invalidate: busy buffer message on boot w/ 2.4.13
greetings all.
built and installed a 2.4.13 kernel and optioned on LVM support and i get this message about ten times when
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On Oct 26, 2001 16:13 -0700, Mark wrote:
[re: invalidate busy buffer]
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built and installed a 2.4.13 kernel and optioned on LVM support and i get this message about ten times when I boot
That's because LVM is overzealous about running invalidate_buffers() when running vgscan (it shouldn't do that). It was never able to invalidate busy buffers, but now there is a warning when it tries to do so. I would submit a patch to remove the invalidate_buffers() call from PV_FLUSH, but since the -ac kernel still has block devices in buffer cache, there is the _possibility_ of a disconnect between user space and kernel space w.r.t. snapshot data (which is written from kernel space).
Cheers, Andreas
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