[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] snapshot-merge target
Andi Kleen
andi at firstfloor.org
Thu Nov 19 16:08:10 UTC 2009
> OK, I hadn't noticed because I was so focused on the details.
>
> DM (and LVM) snapshot merging allows a snapshot (its COW store) to be
> merged back into the snapshot's origin device.
>
> One expected use of snapshot merging is rollback of a root filesystem
> after system upgrades (e.g.: yum update).
Thanks. Can you put that into the changelogs (at least for the main
feature) and into a overview comment somewhere in the code?
-Andi
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