Hello, last night's backup failed on two LVs creating snapshots. The LVs are in different VGs and on different physical disks. Any ideas? -jo jo@bear:~:0$ sudo lvm version LVM version: 2.00.24 (2004-09-16) Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03) Driver version: 4.1.0 jo@bear:~:0$ uname -a Linux bear 2.6.9-ac8 #2 SMP Sun Nov 14 16:38:45 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux syslog: Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: lvcreate: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__alloc_pages+457/912] __alloc_pages+0x1c9/0x390 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [check_poison_obj+47/480] check_poison_obj+0x2f/0x1e0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__get_free_pages+37/64] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x40 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [kmem_getpages+33/208] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xd0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dbg_redzone1+21/48] dbg_redzone1+0x15/0x30 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [cache_grow+176/352] cache_grow+0xb0/0x160 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [cache_alloc_refill+428/640] cache_alloc_refill+0x1ac/0x280 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__kmalloc+188/240] __kmalloc+0xbc/0xf0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [mempool_resize+156/416] mempool_resize+0x9c/0x1a0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [resize_pool+100/224] resize_pool+0x64/0xe0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dm_create_persistent+40/320] dm_create_persistent+0x28/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [snapshot_ctr+804/912] snapshot_ctr+0x324/0x390 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dm_table_add_target+262/432] dm_table_add_target+0x106/0x1b0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [populate_table+130/224] populate_table+0x82/0xe0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [table_load+104/320] table_load+0x68/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [ctl_ioctl+241/336] ctl_ioctl+0xf1/0x150 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [table_load+0/320] table_load+0x0/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [sys_ioctl+253/640] sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x280 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: device-mapper: : Couldn't create exception store Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: lvcreate: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__alloc_pages+457/912] __alloc_pages+0x1c9/0x390 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [check_poison_obj+47/480] check_poison_obj+0x2f/0x1e0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__get_free_pages+37/64] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x40 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [kmem_getpages+33/208] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xd0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dbg_redzone1+21/48] dbg_redzone1+0x15/0x30 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [cache_grow+176/352] cache_grow+0xb0/0x160 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [cache_alloc_refill+428/640] cache_alloc_refill+0x1ac/0x280 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [__kmalloc+188/240] __kmalloc+0xbc/0xf0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [mempool_resize+156/416] mempool_resize+0x9c/0x1a0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [resize_pool+100/224] resize_pool+0x64/0xe0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dm_create_persistent+40/320] dm_create_persistent+0x28/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [snapshot_ctr+804/912] snapshot_ctr+0x324/0x390 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [dm_table_add_target+262/432] dm_table_add_target+0x106/0x1b0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [populate_table+130/224] populate_table+0x82/0xe0 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [table_load+104/320] table_load+0x68/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [ctl_ioctl+241/336] ctl_ioctl+0xf1/0x150 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [table_load+0/320] table_load+0x0/0x140 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [sys_ioctl+253/640] sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x280 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+151/272] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x97/0x110 Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: device-mapper: : Couldn't create exception store Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: Nov 21 03:00:48 bear kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table _______________________________________________ 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/