Re: [linux-lvm] Server hangs when writing to LVM volume due to LVM Snapshots

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo wpkg org>]

Veselin Kantsev schrieb:

> The snapshots are 180GB each.

So that makes 7 snapshots, each is 180GB? What percentage is filled?


> The current writing process freezes and working with the LV becomes
> impossible both locally and through the network.

LVM-2 doesn't scale very well.

If you have I/O intensive workloads, I'd discourage using (multiple) 
snapshots.

A single write to the origin mean additional writes to each and every 
snapshot of that origin.


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