<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1255" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body> I was attempting to implement a quick snapshot backup solution using lvm2, XFS, and snapshots on a 2.6 kernel. After some very odd hangs I started hunting around in the lists and came across some posts that snapshots were not yet properly implemented in 2.6. These were from a few months ago and a quick scan of the lvm2 tarball (in particular WHATS_NEW and README) doesn't seem to indicate that snaphots should be avoided. So the question is, are snapshots usable? And if they aren't where would I find more current information about when they will be? as it stands now creating a snapshot tends to produce: disk1 snapshots # lvcreate -L5G -nsnaptest -s /dev/filestore/archive device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument Couldn't load device 'filestore-snaptest'. Problem reactivating origin archive an lvscan afterwards shows the snapshot: disk1 snapshots # lvscan ACTIVE Original '/dev/filestore/archive' [60.00 GB] next free (default) ACTIVE '/dev/filestore/groups' [50.00 GB] next free (default) ACTIVE '/dev/filestore/personal' [50.00 GB] next free (default) ACTIVE Snapshot '/dev/filestore/snaptest' [5.00 GB] next free (default) but the device isn't actually created and it takes hard rebooting and a lot of fiddling and poking to delete it. Any help or insight is appreciated. -David </body> </html>