RE: [Xen-users] Backup strategy

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Unfortunately I have had to stop using LVM snapshots.  It 
> seems since I got to the point of having quite a few 
> snapshots active, there are stability issues.  In the last 
> two months, on mounting a snapshot LV the mount command has 
> just hung and so have all accesses to the LV that the 
> snapshot is being made from.  That kills a domU and prevents 
> it from being started again.  To get out of that I've had to 
> reboot dom0.

I think the folks at RH would be interested to hear of such problems
with LVM, and there's a good chance they'll be fixed. Try emailing
Alasdair G Kergon.

Ian

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