[linux-lvm] Newbie questions
Michael E Brown
michael_e_brown at dell.com
Wed Jan 24 22:36:22 UTC 2001
Hi Mayank!
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Mayank Vasa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to LVM and have some basic questions:
>
> 1) From the documentation I have read, I think once you extend/reduce a LV
> or VG you don't need to reboot the system. Correct?
You are correct. No need to reboot the system.
>
> 2) Assuming 1 is correct, how is the filesystem made aware of the changes?
> I'd like to understand the flow of this too.
You need to run a separate utility to resize the filesystem.
http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/
There are kernel patches that allow you to do this while the filesystem is
online. Without the patches, you must un-mount the filesystem first.
No reboot necessary
>
> 3) What are LVM snapshots?
Very cool.
Copy-on-write. You create a snapshot of an LV. The original
volume is still read-write and acts normal. The snapshot acts like a
frozen-in-time picture of the original LV. It does this by creating
'before' copies of any blocks that are changed in the original LV.
--
Michael Brown
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