It's more subtle: firstly, are you using the latest code compiled with O_NOATIME defined correctly, with O_DIRECT configured and without activation=1 in the log section of lvm.conf? If not, retest. There is a known out-of-memory issue with snapshots (shows up in kernel messages). Anything other than that, run some diagnostics to see where things are going wrong. [It shouldn't write to /etc and it already uses mlockall] Alasdair -- agk@redhat.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/