On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:28, Collins Richey wrote: > > > Just for the record, are you up to 4.2 level? AFAIK, lvm(2) support > > was quite broken prior to that. Waiting for others to comment. > > Does that mean it is no longer broken, or just not quite as > broken as it used to be? Are snapshots reliable now? > Snapshots are not reliable yet, in my experience. (In the currently released code from EL4u2). There are more improvements in the u3 kernel: ------ -set of device mapper changes: (Alasdair G Kergon) -fix dm_swap_table error cases -device-mapper multipath: Use private workqueue [154432] -device-mapper dm-emc: Fix a memset [154435] -device-mapper multipath: Flush workqueue when destroying [156412] -dm-raid1: Limit bios to size of mirror region -device-mapper snapshots: Handle origin extension -device-mapper dm.c - set of locking fixes [156569] -device-mapper multipath: Clean up presuspend hook -device-mapper multipath: Not every error is EIO [155427 151324] -device-mapper multipath: Fix pg initialisation races [154442] -device-mapper multipath: Default to SCSI error handler ------ and in the u3 LVM2 ------ * Fri Dec 02 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com> - 2.02.01-1.1 - Build against latest device-mapper package. * Wed Nov 23 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com> - 2.02.01-1.0 - Fix lvdisplay command line for snapshots; fix open file promotion to read/write; fix an lvcreate error path. - Update package dependencies. * Thu Nov 10 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com> - 2.02.00-1.0 - Lots of fixes and new activation code. ------ We shall see if this is any better, so far it seems to be ... but I am not running this in production yet. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060118/83dc0e93/attachment-0005.sig>