[ale] lvm snapshot cron jobs produce "File descriptor 8 left open" in f9

[Brian Pitts]

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