[dm-devel] "Snapshots and mirrors may not yet be mixed."

Luke S Crawford lsc at prgmr.com
Sat Jun 14 10:09:41 UTC 2008


Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com> writes:
> There is a bug that "lvconvert -s" can create snapshot of a mirror
> ... and to my surprise, once it was created this way, it worked.
> 
> So maybe we could remove this restriction at all. There was some
> concern that dmeventd may misbehave in this situation. lvm commands
> seem to handle snapshots of a mirror fine.


Yes, lvconvert seems to make proper snapshots from my (corelog) mirrors.
I've been playing with them for a few days now and no problems yet.  




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