I'm experiencing a very peculiar problem that just surfaced in the last couple of weeks. I have a MySQL server (Dell PowerEdge 2900, 32 GB RAM, 4 x 3.2 GHx Intel Xeon X5460 cores) running the stock CentOS 5.0 distro. (I know, I should update it, and plan to do so shortly.) There's a root-privileged cron job on the machine that creates an
LVM snapshot of the volume containing the database files...