[linux-lvm] snapshot pools, lvm roadmap
Brian Neu
proclivity76 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 5 18:34:15 UTC 2011
So I'm seeing that this is actually 1 year to the day that Jonathan Brassow
f/Red Hat wrote that shared snapshots was the current priority.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2010-January/msg00012.html
I believe that's the term for what I'm seeking. Any update?
----- Original Message ----
> From: Brian Neu <proclivity76 at yahoo.com>
> To: linux-lvm at redhat.com
> Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 2:11:16 AM
> Subject: [linux-lvm] snapshot pools, lvm roadmap
>
> For many years, I've greatly desired a snapshotting solution which goes
>above
>
> and beyond the current lvm features. I'd love to see the ability to
>instantiate
>
> a storage pool for creating snapshots, with either a first-in-first-out or
>even
>
> some other method for bumping snapshots when the pool fills up. The
> inefficiency of the former style of lvm snapshots in both space and speed and
> the cumbersome nature of managing them has kept me looking for alternatives.
> Btrfs isn't quite there yet and may not be through 2011 or beyond. zfs-fuse
> can't seem to act as a volume manager and I'm having problems with crashes.
> Frustrated, I'm turning back to lvm.
>
> So now I'm looking at the lvm wiki and I'm seeing "shared exception store".
>
> Can someone fill me in on the current status of this effort as the wiki was
> last updated in May-2009 ?
>
> Thanks!
>
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