[linux-lvm] root filesystem snapshots

[rich turner]

is only not supported with LVM2? i am almost certain this worked with
earlier versions of LVM.

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:32, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:19:51PM -0800, rich turner wrote:
> > in the past i have read a number of posts related to problems with doing
> > snapshots of logical volumes that contain the root filesystem. 
> 
> Simply not supported yet.
> 
> Some changes in WHATS_NEW move towards supporting it - in particular 
> a kernel with headers supporting the O_NOATIME change in 2.00.23 is a
> pre-requisite.
> 
> Alasdair