Minor bug: if one attempts to create a snapshot without the dm-snapshot module loaded, the system gets "hosed up" rather than just reporting an error. I did this: sudo lvcreate --size 100m --snapshot --name snap /dev/vg2/home I then got an error that I didn't have snapshot support loaded, so I loaded it (modprobe dm-snapshot) and tried again. I then got an error that the 'snap' volume already existed. Sometime around then, the /home partition became unusable, and any process that attempted to access it became unresponsive. I used Alt-SysRq to reboot. On reboot, both /dev/vg2/home and /dev/vg2/snap existed and were inactive. I vgremove'd /dev/vg2/snap, activated /dev/vg2/home, fsck'd it, and went on my way. Snapshot support appears to work great once the module is loaded. Dan R ----- vgdisplay --version LVM version: 2.00.16 (2004-05-24) Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03) Driver version: 4.1.0 /usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux Linux m5 2.6.8.1 #5 SMP Tue Aug 17 05:33:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Gnu C 3.3.4 Gnu make 3.80 binutils 2.14.90.0.7 util-linux 2.12 mount 2.12a module-init-tools 3.1-pre5 e2fsprogs 1.35 jfsutils 1.1.6 pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 nfs-utils 1.0.6 Linux C Library 2.3.2 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.2 Procps 3.2.1 Net-tools 1.60 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 5.2.1 Modules Loaded dm_snapshot mga nfsd exportfs ipt_LOG ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_TCPMSS iptable_mangle iptable_filter ip_tables ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack eeprom w83781d i2c_sensor i2c_amd756 i2c_core md5 ipv6 ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc bridge sd_mod usb_storage hci_usb bluetooth eth1394 snd_cmipci snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore ohci1394 ieee1394 ohci_hcd usbcore dm_mod