On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:28, Collins Richey wrote:
>
> > Just for the record, are you up to 4.2 level? AFAIK, lvm(2) support
> > was quite broken prior to that. Waiting for others to comment.
>
> Does that mean it is no longer broken, or just not quite as
> broken as it used to be? Are snapshots reliable now?
>
Snapshots are not reliable yet, in my experience. (In the currently
released code from EL4u2).
There are more improvements in the u3 kernel:
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-set of device mapper changes: (Alasdair G Kergon)
-fix dm_swap_table error cases
-device-mapper multipath: Use private workqueue [154432]
-device-mapper dm-emc: Fix a memset [154435]
-device-mapper multipath: Flush workqueue when destroying [156412]
-dm-raid1: Limit bios to size of mirror region
-device-mapper snapshots: Handle origin extension
-device-mapper dm.c - set of locking fixes [156569]
-device-mapper multipath: Clean up presuspend hook
-device-mapper multipath: Not every error is EIO [155427 151324]
-device-mapper multipath: Fix pg initialisation races [154442]
-device-mapper multipath: Default to SCSI error handler
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and in the u3 LVM2
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* Fri Dec 02 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.02.01-1.1
- Build against latest device-mapper package.
* Wed Nov 23 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.02.01-1.0
- Fix lvdisplay command line for snapshots; fix open file promotion
to read/write; fix an lvcreate error path.
- Update package dependencies.
* Thu Nov 10 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.02.00-1.0
- Lots of fixes and new activation code.
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We shall see if this is any better, so far it seems to be ... but I am
not running this in production yet.
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