I'm running linux 2.6.6-rc2-udm1. I also have a very repeatable oops running snapshot. I'm working on a patch. I'll post it in the next day or two to lmv-devel. Dave Olien OSDL On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:42:05PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am running a patched 2.6.5 kernel and using lvm2. Everything > > looks ok, but the snapshot may be having problems. Else I just > > may be ignorant about how to use the snapshot. > > > > Here is what I am doing on a generic X86 server. I create a logical > > volume group out of a number of PEs that are properly configured. Then I > > create a logical volume. Then I start to dump a very large tar file > > into the logical volume. As this tar file is inflating the files into > > the logical volume, I then simultaneously create a snapshot volume of > > the recently created logical volume. The very large tar archive that > > was in the process of inflating its contents continues for a while, > > but finally just crashes and hangs at some point. > > > > Am I missunderstanding how to use snapshot here? Or is this just > > severly broken software? Any advise is appreciated. > > > You should be able to create a snapshot fine in ythat situation, even though > the creation will happen slow under load. > > Can you repeat the case ? > Do you have an oops ? If so, please provide the ksymoops output > for further analysis of the problem. > > > > > Thanks, > > Karen > > -- > > Karen Shaeffer > > Neuralscape, Palo Alto, Ca. 94306 > > shaeffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.neuralscape.com > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > *** Software bugs are stupid. > Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH > Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 > 56242 Marienrachdorf > Germany > Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 > FAX 924446 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/