[linux-lvm] Snapshot Problem JFS

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:07:30PM -0500, David Sornig wrote:
> I am running RedHat 9.0
> Kernel 2.4.20-8
> LVM Version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
>  
> I have a 1.4T LogVol with 400G of space being used on a JFS file system.
>  
> The LVM is working excellent.  However,  I cannot create a snapshot.  I run the following lvcreate command as per the man page and get the following error:
>  
> lvcreate --error "Cannot allocate memory"  creating VGDA for "/dev/Volume00/snap01" in kernel
>  

David,

memory allocated to the snapshot needs free physical RAM.

With 400GB and default snapshot extent size we're talking about ~1GB
(using virtual memory for snapshot exception tables so that the table doesn't
need to be in RAM completely any longer is a work item for LVM2).

Do you really expect that much change to your 1.4TB LV during the lifetime of
the snapshot ?
If you use it for a backup, you might get along with a couple of GB allocated
to the snapshot reducing exception table size drastically.


> Not sure why this is happening.  I have read the list and maybe I just don't understand the problem.  These servers have 4 Gigs of RAM.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> David

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