[linux-lvm] snapshots and 2.6 kernel
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Tue Apr 6 14:01:22 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:07, darren.miller at philips.com wrote:
> Getting the volume active is a pain I found that you have to reboot the
> system and when it comes back you need to create a link your volume group
> directory for the snapshot you create, atleast after the reboot the
> snapshot device showup in /dev/mapper which is a start right.
It would be _really_ good if LVM2 would fail gracefully when a snapshot
fails, or try to discover whether or not it can take the snapshot before
trying. At the very least a big **WARNING** in the _LVM2_ docs and in
lvcreate would help a lot.
I found LVM1 snapshots so perfect that I never thought about them
anymore; LVM2 on 2.6 was a nasty shock that I'd love to see others saved
from.
Craig Ringer
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