When repeatedly resizing snapshots (both reducing and enlarging), I eventually would get VMALLOC failures. Looking at the code, it looks like when snapshots are resized the old exception table and hash table are never freed. A patch to address the problem follows. Dale Stephenson steph@snapserver.com --- linux/drivers/md/lvm.c.orig Thu Mar 14 08:21:16 2002 +++ linux/drivers/md/lvm.c Thu Mar 14 08:23:07 2002 @@ -2489,6 +2489,8 @@ memcpy(new_lv->lv_block_exception, old_lv->lv_block_exception, size); + vfree(old_lv->lv_block_exception); + vfree(old_lv->lv_snapshot_hash_table); old_lv->lv_remap_end = new_lv->lv_remap_end; old_lv->lv_block_exception = new_lv->lv_block_exception; old_lv->lv_snapshot_hash_table = _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
