On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:47:07PM +0100, Patrick Reinhardt wrote: > Hi! > I'm running in trouble creating more than 16 snapshots of the same origin: We don't have a solution for that particular problem yet, but we do have code changes that should avoid the risk of the system locking up when it happens. This needs the latest development packages for LVM2 (2.02.*) and device-mapper (1.02.*). And a kernel containing the patches: dm-rename-frozen_bdev.patch dm-skip-lockfs.patch dm-ioctl-skip-lockfs.patch dm-snapshot-metadata-reading-separation.patch dm-snapshot-load-metadata-on-creation.patch dm-ioctl-reduce-pf-memalloc-usage.patch from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/ There are still some snapshot problems that have shown up while testing the RHEL4 kernel (with all the above patches applied) that we haven't got to the bottom of yet: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174636 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174742 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174753 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/
