Hi, Something similar is also happening to me on Dapper LTS 6.06.2 with Kernel 2.6.15-52-amd64-server. I do not have a way of reproducing this at will. In summary, I have the primary volume (u01) of 450GB sitting in a VG using a PV on /dev/cciss_c0d1p1, so no mdraid or other layering. Creating a 15GB snapshot of of the volume works as expected. # lvcreate -s -n test1 -L 15G vg01/u01 Logical volume "test1" created # I can then mount and use the snapshot. Creating a second snapshot of the volume then resulted in: # lvcreate -s -n test2 -L 20G vg01/u01 Logical volume "test2" created # However, the volume is not usable: # lvdisplay vg01 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg01/u01 VG Name vg01 LV UUID Be69s5-zvtC-OKp3-IJDR-MQFe-YWPe-A7Bm1S LV Write Access read/write LV snapshot status source of /dev/vg01/test1 [active] /dev/vg01/test2 [INACTIVE] LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 450.00 GB Current LE 14400 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg01/test1 VG Name vg01 LV UUID PYhpfX-5Wl3-x487-h4x6-Gb2y-7N1j-x4XB2c LV Write Access read/write LV snapshot status active destination for /dev/vg01/u01 LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 450.00 GB Current LE 14400 COW-table size 15.00 GB COW-table LE 480 Allocated to snapshot 0.40% Snapshot chunk size 8.00 KB Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:12 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg01/test2 VG Name vg01 LV UUID HKyqse-NSu3-5b2y-So54-xZsr-oiNK-ndExdP LV Write Access read/write LV snapshot status INACTIVE destination for /dev/vg01/u01 LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 450.00 GB Current LE 14400 COW-table size 20.00 GB COW-table LE 640 Snapshot chunk size 8.00 KB Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:14 # And I see these errors in dmesg: [792276.624583] attempt to access beyond end of device [792276.624591] dm-13: rw=17, want=569894688, limit=41943040 [792276.624596] device-mapper: Error reading/writing snapshot [792276.665813] attempt to access beyond end of device [792276.665819] dm-13: rw=17, want=569902896, limit=41943040 [792276.923219] attempt to access beyond end of device [792276.923225] dm-13: rw=17, want=569894688, limit=41943040 [792276.965357] attempt to access beyond end of device [792276.965362] dm-13: rw=17, want=569902896, limit=41943040 [792277.253731] attempt to access beyond end of device [792277.253737] dm-13: rw=17, want=569894688, limit=41943040 [792277.805186] device-mapper: snapshot is marked invalid root@uxlon07:~# It seems that most times when I do the following: * create snapshot snap1 * use snapshot snap1 *create snapshot snap2 then snap2 is invalid, but if I dont use snap1 then things seem to be ok. Regards, Mike