Tried to apply the udm patch selection to vanilla 2.6.4 kernel recieved a shed load of failures and the kernel refused to build. I am not a programmer so I have no clue how to rectify these issues. do you have anything that works? ============================================================================== Darren Miller Senior Systems Support Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional SCO Advanced Certified Engineer Infomation Systems Department (Core Server Support) Philips Semiconductors,Milbrook Industrial Estate,Southampton,SO15 0DJ,England Direct Dial In: +44 (0) 2380 312681 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td> Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Sent by: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com 11/03/2004 09:20 Please respond to linux-lvm <td> To: linux-lvm@redhat.com cc: (bcc: Darren Miller/SOU/SC/PHILIPS) Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2-Snapshot Classification: </table> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I have problems when I try to create a snapshot of a logical volume > under LVM2 (Kernel 2.6.3). I get the following messages after using > "lvcreate -s -l 227 -n snap /dev/vg1/lv1": > > device_mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument > Couldn't load device 'vg1-snap'. > Problem reactivating origin lv1 > > > How can I solve that? > > Using google, I found that snapshots under LVM2 and Kernel 2.6 generally > do not work. I hope that that is no longer true, is it? The snapshot target isn't in vanilla 2.6 yet, use my udm (unstable dm) tree if you want that functionality. http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/ I _hope_ to submit this to lkml within the next month. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/