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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] multiple snapshots
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:56:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124891803.5550.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430C7AA0.4010000@astral.ro>

lvm snapshot is known to be unstable so far. if u have interest to
search the archival, there are many discussion on this.

lvm people has plan to stabilize it but with a lower priority than other
tasks. so we can only wait and hope it can be done soon or we can
petition to get it faster. :P

ming



On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:48 +0300, Imre Gergely wrote:
> Micha Holzmann wrote:
> > Imre Gergely wrote:
> > 
> >>anybody anything? i still have this problem... the main question is: can
> >>one have multiple snapshots of the same LV, without problems? with one
> >>snapshot e ok, but as soon as i create another snapshot, and try to do
> >>something on the origin LV, it hangs, it oops-es.
> > 
> > 
> > Same on my machines, if more than one snapshot the system freezes after
> > a little time totally. Even the shutdown command does not work. I can
> > login via ssh an can see as many shutdown processes in ps list as i
> > issued. At the moment i assume that snapshots are not working as
> > expected or announced in the doku. These are my observations.
> 
> i tried on a real machine, the same thing happened. the only thing
> different is that i don't see any oopses, or any error messages
> indicating that something is wrong...
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 11:50 [linux-lvm] multiple snapshots Imre Gergely
2005-08-16  6:37 ` Imre Gergely
2005-08-16  7:17   ` Imre Gergely
2005-08-23 13:33     ` Imre Gergely
2005-08-23 17:13       ` Micha Holzmann
2005-08-24 13:48         ` Imre Gergely
2005-08-24 13:56           ` Ming Zhang [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-26  6:10 Stefan Majer

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