bowen zheng wrote: > Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then > lvcreate hang. The lvcreate does the xfs_freeze for you, so if you run xfs_freeze, then the lcreate will hang. Running it with '-u' should allow the lvcreate to hang. > I use lvm2 and xfs both. If I do not use xfs_freeze before, I can use > lvcreate snapshot the lv. And it work fine for some static files or > lv, but not for running system such as / (root) which will generate a > log of I/O error. What kind of errors are you getting. I've done this on active filesystems for backup purposes, and not had any problems. Dave _______________________________________________ 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/
