<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>I get the patches from:  </div>
<div><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Linux kernel 2.6.34 patch: </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://people.redhat.com/mpatocka/patches/kernel/new-snapshots/r19/"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://people.redhat.com/mpatocka/patches/kernel/new-snapshots/r19/</font></a></span></div>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">LVM2-2.02.64 patch: </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/patches/multisnap/lvm2/LVM2-2.02.64/"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/patches/multisnap/lvm2/LVM2-2.02.64/</font></a></span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">but when I used it, the segment type can not find, can anyone help me?</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# pvcreate /dev/sd[bcdef]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# vgcreate vg00 /dev/sd[bcdef]</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# lvcreate -L 100G -n lv_test /dev/vg00</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# lvcreate -L 200G -c 256 --sharedstore <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>mikulas -s /dev/vg00/lv_test</font></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><font color="#3333ff"><strong>WARNING: Unrecognised segment type multisnapshot</strong></font></font></font></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#3333ff"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Cannot update volume group vg00 with unknown segments in it!<span style="COLOR: navy"></span></strong></font></font></font></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# lvscan</font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 10.5pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">ACTIVE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">         </span>'/dev/vg00/lv_test' [100.00 GiB] inherit</font></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>inactive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">          </span>'/dev/vg00/lv_test-shared' [200.00 GiB] inherit</font></font></span></p>

<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[root@new-host-34 ~]# lvcreate -s -n lv_test_ss1 /dev/vg00/lv_test </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: ËÎÌå; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="COLOR: navy"><strong>Unable to create new logical volume with no extents</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The dm modules in the system:</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[root@new-host-34 LVM2.2.02.64]# lsmod |grep dm<br>dm_snapshot            25583  0 <br>dm_store_daniel        11304  0 <br>dm_store_mikulas       43265  0 <br>
dm_multisnapshot       20276  2 dm_store_daniel,dm_store_mikulas<br>dm_mirror              11564  0 <br>dm_multipath           14594  0 <br>scsi_dh                 5480  1 dm_multipath<br>dm_region_hash          8233  1 dm_mirror<br>
dm_log                  8158  2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash<br>dm_mod                 58855  9 dm_snapshot,<font color="#3366ff"><strong>dm_store_daniel,dm_store_mikulas,dm_multisnapshot</strong></font>,dm_mirror,dm_multipath,dm_log</span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">        I just want to use the multisnap by LVM2 command. But I don't know is there any document about HOW-TO?</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">        Thank you very much.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Busby</span></p>