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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 'snapshot' target still experimental :-(
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:07:20PM -0500, Steffen Plotner wrote:
> cd to a directory on an lv that has an active snapshot
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=10000
 
> And see how hard it is to remove a live active snapshot. 

Strange - I don't recall anyone reporting that problem before.

I've just tried it here and the machine locked up:-(

Alasdair
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