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...client in WinXPProf 3 - write script to make snapshot to my LVM2 + XFS system SNAPNAME=`date+%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S` lvcreate -v -L10M -s -n $SNAPNAME /dev/lvmgroup1/home xfs_freeze -u /home mkdir /home/@GMT-$SNAPNAME mount /dev/mapper/lvmgroup1-$SNAPNAME /home/@GMT-$SNAPNAME -onouuid,ro 4 - everything seems to be fine, but when i open previous version window under WinXP, it's blank ... so what else, i have no more id...

I don't know if this was present (maybe not?) when the script was written, but the script for taking a snapshot in the instructions for shadow_copy: that looks like this: ---- xfs_freeze -f /home/ lvcreate -L10M -s -n $SNAPNAME /dev/Home/lvol0 xfs_freeze -u /home/ mkdir /home/shadow_share/@GMT-$SNAPNAME mount /dev/Home/$SNAPNAME \ /home/shadow_share/@GMT-$SNAPNAME -onouuid,ro ---- Causes an, apparently, well-known system hang when you do the lvcreate. The workaround is to NOT use xfs_freeze. I d...

Just discovered that on CentOS 4.1 when you issue the command: lvcreate -s -n temp -L2G /dev/vgname/lvname to create a snapshot, you get the error message: snapshot: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel I've checked and recheck my spelling and tried using the device created under /dev/mapper. I've tried it on both x86_64 and on i386. Works as expected under