Nix wrote: > On 5 Aug 2006, David Greaves prattled cheerily: that's me :) >> As an example of the cons: I've just set up lvm2 over my raid5 and whilst >> testing snapshots, the first thing that happened was a kernel BUG and an >> oops... > > I've been backing up using writable snapshots on LVM2 over RAID-5 for > some time. No BUGs. I tried but it didn't recurr. I sent a report to lkml.
> I think the blame here is likely to be layable at the snapshots' door, > anyway: they're still a little wobbly and the implementation is pretty > complex: bugs surface on a regular basis. Hmmm. Bugs in a backup strategy. Hmmm. I think I can live with a nightly shutdown of the daemons whilst rsync does it's stuff across the LAN. David -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
