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[ale] lvm snapshot cron jobs produce "File descriptor 8 left open" in f9
- Subject: [ale] lvm snapshot cron jobs produce "File descriptor 8 left open" in f9
- From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:29:45 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Brian W. Neu wrote:
> I'm thinking that maybe some kind of X app may be mounting these drives
> in the gui and causing the problem, but I haven't found the culprit.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
According to this bug report [0] it's nothing to worry about. It's not
that some other app has the drive open, but that when cron forked and
execed lvcreate it had fd 8 open.
You can export LVM_SUPPRESS_FD_WARNINGS=1 to get rid of the messages.
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432986
-Brian