Thanks, But no, it's not my root filesystem. Seems that the snapshot feature ist, well, not quite ready for use. -Gunnar > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:56:27AM +0200, Gunnar Hilling wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > > > I just tried the lvm2/dm-snapshot feature and failed miserably... > > After reading some older postings in this and the dm-devel mailing lists > > I'm not sure what to do: > > > > [...] > > > > > lvcreate --snapshot --size 100m --name snap /dev/TestMirrorGroup/OnlineVol > > > > will block forever. I have to reboot the computer. After > > that /dev/TestMirrorGroup/snap is there... > > /dev/TestMirrorGroup/OnlineVol is your root filesystem? I have the same > problem. Snapshots on other (non root fs) work for me. > > AFAIK snapshots and pvmove do not work on the filesystem where the lvm-tools > reside. I hope this will change in the (not so distant) future as I > need snapshots on root-fs. > > regards > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
