From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j7ODumV27265 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:56:48 -0400 Received: from leviathan.ele.uri.edu (leviathan.ele.uri.edu [131.128.51.64]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7ODulRH019664 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:56:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] multiple snapshots From: Ming Zhang In-Reply-To: <430C7AA0.4010000@astral.ro> References: <4300816B.8060208@astral.ro> <430189C1.8030000@astral.ro> <430192F7.5010801@astral.ro> <430B25B9.8060207@astral.ro> <20050823171301.GA8612@kaliba.pf.mhnet.de> <430C7AA0.4010000@astral.ro> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:56:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1124891803.5550.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development 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... > > _______________________________________________ > 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/