Dave Ewart wrote:

The server in question is a fairly generic Debian/Sarge mail server,
RAID setup for disks, 2.6 kernel.  And /var/mail is on its own ext3
partition.

You mention that it works with LVM.  Do snapshots *require* LVM?

I create snapshots with "lvcreate --snapshot ..;", so, yes indeed, you
need LVM (and free space in the volume group!).

2.6 kernels probably work with lvm2 and device-mapper, so that falls
in the buggy category currently.  I'm not certain what Debian/Sarge
uses.


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