Steve Feehan wrote: > Are you saying that the lvcreate command literally executes xfs_freeze > when used on a volume that happens to contain an XFS filesystem? Or > that creating a snapshot is equivalent to using xfs_freeze? Not literally, but the freeze/unfreeze is done by the dm driver in recent kernels. If your systems hangs on with the xfs_freeze -f, then you have a kernel with this feature. Just 'xfs_freeze -u' to allow the snapshot to be created, and then continue to create the mirrors without a manual freeze. 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/