On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:39:11PM +0100, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: > So, obviously, > snapshot volume size = original volume size > is not sufficient to hold a complete change of the original volume. Correct - there's a little bit of metadata required too to map each piece of data back into the right location. > Btw.: There's a bug in "lvscan", it still displayed the snapshot > as being "ACTIVE", while in fact (at least that's what I concluded), > it was "INACTIVE" due to the lack of space, as shown using "lvdisplay". The 'lvs' attributes should be accurate (and lvdisplay too I think). lvscan doesn't check properly and needs fixing, thanks. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/