[linux-lvm] snapshots and nfs

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:54:41PM -0500, Kristina Clair wrote:
> Now, if I run lvcreate shortly after the machine is booted, it runs
> successfully.  However, if I try to run the same command the next day,
> after it's been online and the webservers have had the filesystem
> mounted, it hangs when trying to suspend the volume.
 
How does it hang?  Do you get kernel error messages?
Try watching kernel memory usage just before the failures:
It could be one of the out-of-memory problems with snapshots 
that we're working on fixing.

Alasdair
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