Thanks to Nathan Scott, the new 2.6.11 kernel has a fix that should allow xfs_freeze to be called prior to the creating a snapshot. It is still not required, but it should no longer cause problems. Greg -- Greg Freemyer _______________________________________________ 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/