[Xen-users] RE: Problems with LVM in Xen3.0

[Christian Wicke <xen.christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Christian,

I just read your mail with LVM snapshotting problems under Xen.
I had similar problems with xen 2.0. I don't think the problem is xen 
related though. I found some mails that say that LVM2 snapshotting is 
not stable yet in 2.6 kernels. (See here: 
www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.1/0861.html
www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.0/0413.html)
I documentet some of the mails on my howto-page for Sarge and Xen 2.0 
(http://www.xmlvalidation.com/xen_howto_sarge.0.html)
I found another mail from November 2nd from Alasdair G Kergon where he 
had a patch for the hang-problem with LVM2 snapshots (see here: 
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20051102.000353.81a647cf.en.html). 
But I don't know whether this is accepted in the kernel yet. I don't 
know either whether LVM snapshotting is stable after this fix or if 
there are more problems with it.
If you find out that snapshotting is ready for production, please let me 
know.
Christian

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users