[linux-lvm] Restoring method Snapshot to Orginal Volume

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Antony MARTINEAU schrieb:

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> ideally
> dd if=/dev/vg0/lv1.snap of=/dev/vg0/lv1 should be perfect but it is 
> impossible because when restoring snapshot on the original volume, the 
> snapshot continue to increase until to become fully and inactive

Increase your snapshot size then.


> Is there a solution to deactive the cow (copy and write)for during the 
> restoration about snapshot to original volume ?

See the "ANNOUNCE: an experimental implementation of snapshot merging" 
thread.


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