LVM Snapshots under RHEL4

[mikevl]

Hi I see that the latest updates of RHEL4 include an updated LVM RPM. Has anbody been using these yet?

Does anybody have a +ve and consistant experience with the latest LVM.

LVM used to crash servers in the not so distant past.


Many thanks

Mike v

[florian]

I can't speak of any testing that has been done but from the list of bugfixes that they've done is it seems that RHEL4U3 has indeed adressed the device mapper/snapshot issue that could crash the system.

If you find the time to try this out, let us know how it went.

Florian.

[pete]

Well, I just had a system crash and rebuilt it using RHEL4 (instead of 3). It's only been a couple of days, but it looks good. I'll let you know in a couple of weeks (please ping this thread to remind me).

P

[joaster]

ping

And which version of LVM and the kernel are you currently running?

Regards,
Joost.

[florian]

For RHEL4, you should have at least RHEL4 update 3 - this was a kernel issue in the devmapper code and has been patched by RedHat.

Cheers,
Florian.