On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:42:05PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > > Hello, > > I am running a patched 2.6.5 kernel and using lvm2. Everything > looks ok, but the snapshot may be having problems. Else I just > may be ignorant about how to use the snapshot. > > Here is what I am doing on a generic X86 server. I create a logical > volume group out of a number of PEs that are properly configured. Then I > create a logical volume. Then I start to dump a very large tar file > into the logical volume. As this tar file is inflating the files into > the logical volume, I then simultaneously create a snapshot volume of > the recently created logical volume. The very large tar archive that > was in the process of inflating its contents continues for a while, > but finally just crashes and hangs at some point. > > Am I missunderstanding how to use snapshot here? Or is this just > severly broken software? Any advise is appreciated. You should be able to create a snapshot fine in ythat situation, even though the creation will happen slow under load. Can you repeat the case ? Do you have an oops ? If so, please provide the ksymoops output for further analysis of the problem. > > Thanks, > Karen > -- > Karen Shaeffer > Neuralscape, Palo Alto, Ca. 94306 > shaeffer@neuralscape.com http://www.neuralscape.com > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
