So I'm building a file server with a 3ware raid card (6800, maybe replaced with a 7800). This is a dual-1.2 Athlon running 2.4.16 with LVM sitting below our ~700GB ext3 data partition. At first, we used the lvm support included in the kernel. After some copying, I tested lvcreate -s -l 200 -n test1 /dev/vol0/cobra The snapshot was corrupt. Known problem. Fair enough. So I grabbed lvm 1.0.1 (released a couple days ago). I patched the kernel with the new lvm and the VFS-lock patch for 2.4.11. There were quite a few offsets, but it otherwise applied cleanly. I started a big cp off an NFS mount and ran lvcreate -s -l 200 -n test1 /dev/vol0/cobra The cp and lvcreate deadlocked. Both are frozen in D state and they're not coming out. Snapshots were the big reason for us to use LVM, so this is not good. Help! -- Brian
