Hello all, i am new with LVM and related topics. After reading the Linux LVM howto i decided to use lvm an a machine which serves different data for our users. After using it for a while i came to this site: http://c.mills.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/Samba/XfsAclWinAuth.html Inspired from the details to the "MicroBackups", i intend to do the same. I customized the script to fit our needs. I create the directories /mnt/snapshots/{data,home} and want to have that every half hour from 7am until 7pm a snapshot is created an mounted on a directory which reflects the date/time of creation. The directory structe then is: /mnt/snapshot/data/20070520 | +--0700 +--0730 +... +... +--1830 +--1900 /mnt/snapshot/data/20070521 | +--0700 +--0730 +... +... +--1830 +--1900 The same for the other shares and valid for a maximum of three days. If the snapshot has expired (reached the age of 3 day) it has to be unmounted and removed (the snapshot and the mount point). The filesystem on these shares are XFS. After creating a couple of snapshots and mounting them accordingly the machine freezes. Samba was unusable, login was able. But also a "shutdown -r now" does not work. The machine hung. Only reset helps out. First i thought it is may a problem of XFS. I setup another machine for testing purposes with ext3. But the same occurs. The system is: Debian SID Kernel 2.6.11 LVM2 Is the snapshot feature not intended for this what i do/want or have i a fault in thinking? Any help/hint is much appreciated. Best regards, Micha Holzmann -- Der Horizont vieler Menschen ist ein Kreis mit Radius Null, und das nennen sie ihren Standpunkt _______________________________________________ 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/