[linux-lvm] RedHat 9 lvcreate snapshot failure.
Michael Paesold
mpaesold at gmx.at
Tue Jan 6 12:36:02 UTC 2004
This seems to be a bug in the RedHat Kernel:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97843
Should be fixed in the latest errata kernel, but I have not verified that.
Regards,
Michael Paesold
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Collins" <mail310068 at pop.net>
To: <linux-lvm at sistina.com>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:29 AM
Subject: [linux-lvm] RedHat 9 lvcreate snapshot failure.
>
>
> Running Redhat 9 and trying to create a snapshot for a safer backup of a
> logical volume, I get the following error. Surfing the net didn't turn up
> anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
> lvcreate -L20M --snapshot --name mysnap /dev/vg00/homes
> lvcreate -- rounding size up to physical extent boundary
> lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it
> gets full
> lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for
> "/dev/vg00/mysnap"
> lvcreate -- ERROR "Invalid argument" creating VGDA for "/dev/vg00/mysnap"
in
> kernel
>
> ----
> lvdisplay /dev/vg00/homes
> --- Logical volume ---
> LV Name /dev/vg00/homes
> VG Name vg00
> LV Write Access read/write
> LV Status available
> LV # 2
> # open 1
> LV Size 64 GB
> Current LE 4
> Allocated LE 4
> Allocation next free
> Read ahead sectors 1024
> Block device 58:1
>
>
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