On 5 Aug 2006, David Greaves prattled cheerily: > As an example of the cons: I've just set up lvm2 over my raid5 and whilst > testing snapshots, the first thing that happened was a kernel BUG and an oops... I've been backing up using writable snapshots on LVM2 over RAID-5 for some time. No BUGs. I think the blame here is likely to be layable at the snapshots' door, anyway: they're still a little wobbly and the implementation is pretty complex: bugs surface on a regular basis. -- `We're sysadmins. We deal with the inconceivable so often I can clearly see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html