Re: [linux-lvm] snapshots and 2.6 kernel

[Craig Ringer <craig postnewspapers com au>]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:07, darren miller philips com wrote:
> Getting the volume active is a pain I found that you have to reboot the 
> system and when it comes back you need to create a link your volume group 
> directory for the snapshot you create, atleast after the reboot the 
> snapshot device showup in /dev/mapper which is a start right.

It would be _really_ good if LVM2 would fail gracefully when a snapshot
fails, or try to discover whether or not it can take the snapshot before
trying. At the very least a big **WARNING** in the _LVM2_ docs and in
lvcreate would help a lot.

I found LVM1 snapshots so perfect that I never thought about them
anymore; LVM2 on 2.6 was a nasty shock that I'd love to see others saved
from.

Craig Ringer