This seems to be a bug in the RedHat Kernel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97843 Should be fixed in the latest errata kernel, but I have not verified that. Regards, Michael Paesold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Collins" <mail310068@pop.net> To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:29 AM Subject: RedHat 9 lvcreate snapshot failure. > > > Running Redhat 9 and trying to create a snapshot for a safer backup of a > logical volume, I get the following error. Surfing the net didn't turn up > anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Richard > > > lvcreate -L20M --snapshot --name mysnap /dev/vg00/homes > lvcreate -- rounding size up to physical extent boundary > lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it > gets full > lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for > "/dev/vg00/mysnap" > lvcreate -- ERROR "Invalid argument" creating VGDA for "/dev/vg00/mysnap" in > kernel > > ---- > lvdisplay /dev/vg00/homes > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/vg00/homes > VG Name vg00 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 2 > # open 1 > LV Size 64 GB > Current LE 4 > Allocated LE 4 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 1024 > Block device 58:1 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
