On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:02, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:50:32AM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am soon to take delivery of a new Server: It's configuration is to be > > > > 584GB disk (hardware raid5) 4 cpu (with Intel hyperthreading) > > > > 32 GB RAM > > > > > > I intend to use RH Advanced Server 2.1 (whatever the latest kernel is at > > time of install). > > > > I would ideally like to be able to snapshot dump this machine (the > > largest partition will use most of the available disk space (4-500GB)). > > > > Is there any caveat or issue that I should be aware of with lvm in this > > configuration? > > Snapshots trigger a virtual memory problem with highmem enabled in kernel 2.4 :( > > The snapshot exception tables hold in RAM can grow quite big in case > of large snapshot sizes (which you might not need in case your filesystem(s) > are not heavily updated during the lifetime of the snapshot). > Hi Heinz What do you recommend I do? What is (if any) the largest filesystem I can snapshot in this set-up? -- Geoff Dolman <geoff.dolman@cimr.cam.ac.uk> _______________________________________________ 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/
