[linux-lvm] LVM snapshot unreliable?

[Falko Zurell]

Hello,

I still got this major issue that automatic nightly snapshoting is  
absolutly not reliable. In 4 out of 5 times the snapshoting will fail.

My Setup:
	HP DL320s box with 6 harddisks
	Ubuntu server 7.04 (feisty)
	kernel: 2.6.20-16-server
	device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm- 
devel at redhat.com
	LVM version:     2.02.06 (2006-05-12)
   		Library version: 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)
   		Driver version:  4.11.0

All my disks form a big hardware RAID5. LVM is serving one volume  
group with 4 logical volumes. To of the volumes have the XFS  
filesystem and should be snapshot every night.

Therefor I unmount the last snapshot, remove the snapshot and the re- 
create it with the same name. But it looks like lvm isn't removing  
the snapshot most of the time. The lvremove returns that it has  
successfully removed the snapshot. But when I try to re create the  
snaphost it fails. Then with "lvs" I can see that the snapshot is  
still there.

I tried to deactivate the snapshot prior to removing with "lvchange - 
an" but that wont help or even work most of the times.

Has someone a working konfiguration? Home often do you snapshots?  
Could this be a XFS issue?

thanks and kind regards

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