On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 04:06:59AM -0700, Rik Herrin wrote: > Does this mean that I don't have to unmount (or remount ro) a partition if > I'm using a 2.6 kernel to take a snapshot and I can rest assured that the > logical volume will be in a consistent state? Thanks for your help. Yes, in principle; but there was a bug in userspace lvm2 for a while (fixed in 2.02.08 - introduced around 2.02.02?) and there are problems with a mistaken semaphone/mutex change someone put into some recent kernels around 2.6.18. 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/