On 5 Aug 2006, David Greaves prattled cheerily:
> 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 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.

-- 
`We're sysadmins. We deal with the inconceivable so often I can clearly 
 see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel
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