On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:42:05PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > > > > 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. Hello Heinz, Sorry for the delay in responding, but I am very busy. Yes, the problem is repeatable. The hardware included an external RAID array that was accessed with the LSI fibre channel HBA, which I believe is known to be buggy. So, I have removed this hardware from my test lab and will be conducting additional testing. I will provide full details, if I encounter additional problems. BTW, can you please advise me of the time frame for progress with LVM2 and the 2.6.x kernel. Is a patchset planned to support the 2.6.6 kernel with respect to snapshot? Also, can you comment on the evms alternative. It seems they already have a release supporting the 2.6.6 kernel. My understanding is that this latest evms release is production ready. Can you discuss LVM2's status in comparison? 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/