in the past i have read a number of posts related to problems with doing snapshots of logical volumes that contain the root filesystem. i am able to replicate the problem here as well, the system just hangs. can anyone tell me specifically what the problem relates to and if there is a fix available? i have downloaded the latest LVM2 source and there is no mention of it in WHATS_NEW. i would like to warn people should they decide to do a snapshot of a logical volume that contains the root filesystem. under what circumstances will i run into this problem? is it a certain level of LVM? a certain level of the kernel? a certain level of device-mapper? a certain filesystem type? also, i have seen problems with doing snapshots of filesystems using ext3. i assume this is related to the VFS lock patch. should i be able to perform snapshots of ext3 filesystems without failure? _______________________________________________ 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/
