On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:16 -0500, Andrew W. Donoho wrote: > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > On Oct 14, 2004, at 11:31, Kai Leibrandt wrote: > As soon as I create a snapshot on / however, the machine > hangs, although X still works (well, the mouse still moves), > it is no longer possible to open a new shell, switch consoles, > or even <CTRL>C the lvcreate. > > I have tried this with ext2 as well as with xfs, including > doing xfs_freeze before taking the snapshot, so I don't think > it's a filesys related matter. > > Is there anything I am missing here? Is it even supported to > do / snapshots? > > > Kai, > > I reported a similar problem starting with my root partition when I > added a second drive. After a bit of skullduggery, I believe that LVM > activities on the root partition particularly stress the memory > system. Or, at least, when I slowed the memory system down on my > x86-64 machine, I no longer get crashes like you describe above. > Weird.. I thought the problem was that LVM was causing the atime on the /dev entries to be updated, which required write access, but there was a lock on the filesystem while the snapshot was created. _______________________________________________ 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/
