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Steffen Plotner wrote:

> With FC4 for example I cannot remove a snapshot while the underlying
> logical volume is under heavy I/O.  Once all I/O stops I can remove the
> snapshot. Doing a lvremove will hang.

Interesting.

I am using this on a Gentoo system using vanilla kernel 2.6.15.1, and my 
volumes don't experience 'heavy I/O' at the times I make backups, so it 
shouldn't be too bad.

Thanks for the info :-)