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 (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7RGQ2hE014797 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:26:02 -0400 Received: from mail2.syneticon.net (mail.syneticon.net [213.239.212.131]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7RGPrpG001705 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:25:53 -0400 Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net (postfix1.syneticon.net [192.168.112.6]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E629453BD8 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F279325 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.4]) by localhost (mx03.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id ZGzQZTJwC5cs for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:25:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (xdsl-87-79-96-91.netcologne.de [87.79.96.91]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:25:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46D2FAFB.7010807@wpkg.org> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:25:31 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] "cannot allocate memory" when trying to do a snapshot? References: <46CEE6FF.1090000@wpkg.org> <46D2F715.9000308@wpkg.org> <1188231241.24432.1.camel@pc.ilinx> In-Reply-To: <1188231241.24432.1.camel@pc.ilinx> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Brian J. Murrell schrieb: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:08 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Some more info on that. >> Apparently, this whole snapshotting thing is not very stable, and there >> are bugs in it. > > This whole snapshotting thing is a known and fixed bug. I opened a bug > about it in RH's bugzilla about a year ago but am unable to log back in > there to find it specifically for you. Search for bugs reported by > anyone @interlinx.bc.ca. Try the word "kcopy" in the bug if there are > too many listed. Looks like it's here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208172 Let's see if upgrading the kernel helps... -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org