LVM snapshot

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Aug 18 14:22:48 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> said:
> Especially considering that pvmove requires mirroring support now, I
> feel sympathetic to the idea of having dm-mirror unconditionally, such
> that, if you happen to reboot in the middle of a pvmove, you don't end
> up in big trouble.

For the same reason, I'd suggest dm-snapshot also be unconditionally
included.  I use snapshots to get consistent backups; if the system were
rebooted during backup (while the snapshot of / exists), I guess
dm-snapshot is required, right?

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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