[linux-lvm] State of LVM Snapshotting?

[Michael Loftis]

In 2.4 atleast snapshots aren't very useful to me because they require huge 
chunks of contiguous kernel memory for the COW bitmap table.  I was 
wondering if 2.6 improves this situation any.  currently we use a 64M PE on 
volumes ranging in size from 30Gb up to and over 300Gb.  The smaller 
volumes we can usually take snapshots of, but anything up over 100Gb we've 
never been able to reliably take any snapshots, much less have more than 
one because of this limitation.

Any feedback would be welcome, if you need specifics on the versions we 
were using I c cna provide them.  Currently starting to (try) to migrate to 
2.6.  Though that's proving difficult and might be impossible because of 
reasons discussed on LKML.

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