[linux-lvm] multiple snapshots

[Ming Zhang]

lvm snapshot is known to be unstable so far. if u have interest to
search the archival, there are many discussion on this.

lvm people has plan to stabilize it but with a lower priority than other
tasks. so we can only wait and hope it can be done soon or we can
petition to get it faster. :P

ming



On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:48 +0300, Imre Gergely wrote:
> Micha Holzmann wrote:
> > Imre Gergely wrote:
> > 
> >>anybody anything? i still have this problem... the main question is: can
> >>one have multiple snapshots of the same LV, without problems? with one
> >>snapshot e ok, but as soon as i create another snapshot, and try to do
> >>something on the origin LV, it hangs, it oops-es.
> > 
> > 
> > Same on my machines, if more than one snapshot the system freezes after
> > a little time totally. Even the shutdown command does not work. I can
> > login via ssh an can see as many shutdown processes in ps list as i
> > issued. At the moment i assume that snapshots are not working as
> > expected or announced in the doku. These are my observations.
> 
> i tried on a real machine, the same thing happened. the only thing
> different is that i don't see any oopses, or any error messages
> indicating that something is wrong...
> 
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