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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 don't know if this is a kernel bug -- haven't gotten things tracked do...

Samba has a shadow_copy module to serve read-only snapshots to windows clients. I tried to use snapshotting in freebsd 5 (haven''t tried 6), but couldn''t get it stable. I''m really looking forward to getting it going on Solaris. Anyway you can read about the format of the link here: http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2618182 When it