Hallo On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:39:39AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > which LVM version (kernel and tools) kernel: 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) tools: 1.0.4-4 > and do you have HIGHMEM configured > (IOW: more than 960M memory) ? Its a 64Bit architecture. There is no need for things like HIGHMEM. But yes, the system has 2GB RAM. > There's flaws with Linux 2.4.20 highmem which show with snapshots :( But this problem: > > Another related problem is, that "cat /proc/lvm/global" in the most > > cases doesn't output the usual data but some random memory. Its really > > odd. But if I try often enough I sometimes also get the right output > > (and no, I didn't calculated the probability). The other files in > > /proc/lvm work fine. appears also if there are no snapshots at all. (This time I only had to try 2 times to get the version-string.) Tomorrow I will have some time to update the kernel and the tools to the current versions. Daniel _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/