[linux-lvm] How well tested is the snapshot feature?

Joe Thornber joe at fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Jun 7 04:45:01 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:37:05AM +0200, Stephan Austermuehle wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> 
> > Did you apply the VFS patch from the 1.0.3 release ?  This makes
> > sure that the filesystem flushes a consistent state to the disk
> > before the snapshot is setup.
> 
> Do you mean the VFS lock patch? Yes, it is applied.

Curious, as far as I know people are using LVM1 snapshots successfully
with xfs.

- Joe




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