On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Nate Carlson wrote:
I'm curious if it should be possible to take a snapshot of a filesystem
sitting on top of CLVM (*not* a shared filesystem like GFS; something
like XFS or ext3, but still on a shared block device). I recall trying
it a couple weeks ago, and it failing miserably, but don't recall why,
and figured I'd ask if it should work before experimenting again.
If it should work, a few questions:
- Should I be able to create the snapshot on any node, or just the node
that is using the LV that I want to create a snapshot of?
- Is the syntax identical to normal linux snapshots?
Thanks!
OK, decided to try it.. here's what I get:
xen1:~# lvcreate -L 1G -s -n snaptest /dev/XenSystemDisks/iron
Error locking on node nitrogen: Internal lvm error, check syslog
Aborting. Failed to activate snapshot exception store. Remove new LV and retry.
Error on Nitrogen:
Aug 2 14:09:05 nitrogen lvm[295]: Volume group for uuid not found: doCTDCC376pE3g2JA35fNAieVNTWpAC1B3UIGOGQpn5Um5FcmPsa8yQPa0p9o9ZP
Nitrogen does not have access to the PV that this snapshot is on, which
could be part of the problem.
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