[linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Thu May 1 18:15:03 UTC 2008
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> ... If you mount the origin device with missing snapshot, you destroy
> the snapshot (even if you don't touch it). The snapshot can no longer
> be repaired.
>
> So it is safer to not activate device in this case then destroy data.
Why? What value is the old snapshot at this point? You just had a system
reboot in the middle of a snapshotted backup so all you need to do is
get the system up, redo another snapshot and retake your backup. I'm not
interested in the old snapshot.
>
> Imagine, for example, you have origin and snapshot, you reconfigure
> disks in some weird way that the snapshot disk is inaccessible, you
> boot, and the system automatically starts without the snapshot. And
> you lose any data that you stored on that snapshot.
What is on the old snapshot at this point is probably indeterminate anyway.
> You can with dmsetup (but it has deadlocks). Maybe someone could write
> non-deadlocky snapshot-managing tool that wouldn't depend on lvm vgs,
> pvs and lvs.
>
> Mikulas
Have not used dmsetup. If it has deadlocks, I don't think I want to use it.
Gerry
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