good luck getting help on snapshot. i've posted a couple of times and haven't gotten a response. It's buggy and it corrupts data. don't use it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Murthy Kambhampaty [mailto:murthy.kambhampaty@goeci.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:22 PM > To: 'linux-lvm@sistina.com' > Subject: ERROR creating snapshot: "Cannot allocate memory" > > > While trying to snapshot a 335 GB LV (sdd1) on a machine with > 12 GB of RAM, > and 67 GB of free space (sdc1), I get the following error: > > lvcreate -s -l 21 -n snapshot /dev/VGdb01/LVdb > lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically > disabled once it > gets full > lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for > "/dev/VGdb01/snapshot" > lvcreate -- ERROR "Cannot allocate memory" creating VGDA for > "/dev/VGdb01/snapshot" in kernel > > kernel is 2.4.21 (LVM 1.0.5+) with tools form > ~redhat/contrib/lvm-1.0.5.src.rpm > > Help > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
