I found some reference that discuss about LVM1 volume with snapshot performance https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2003-January/msg00173.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2003-January/msg00239.html and I follow the steps with my LVM2 command "sync ; time dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024k count=2000" the result is dd write on LV without snapshots = 150MB/s dd write on LV with 1 snapshots = 4.42 MB/s I got very slow write performace. but read has no problem. is this result work as expected? KERNEL 2.6.13 LVM2 = 2.01.15 Library : 1.01.05 Driver version: 4.4.0 _______________________________________________ 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/