From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Toombs <ewtoombs@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] faster snapshot creation?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:31:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c2966762598bf3ab8667bcd0b429464@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5dd6c06-1e9f-3737-8712-137f92e351cb@uwaterloo.ca>
Il 2020-02-22 12:58 Eric Toombs ha scritto:
> So, is there a sort of "dumber" way of making these snapshots, maybe by
> changing the allocation algorithm or something?
Hi, I think that total snapshot creation time is dominated by LVM
flushing its (meta)data to the physical disks. Two things to try:
- use thin lvm snapshot (see man lvmthin);
- create a pv/vg/lv from a memory-backed loop device (ie: truncate
--size=1G /dev/shm/test.img; losetup -f /dev/shm/test.img; pvcreate
/dev/loop0 and so on...)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-22 11:58 [linux-lvm] faster snapshot creation? Eric Toombs
2020-02-25 9:31 ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
2020-02-25 9:38 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-02-25 21:35 ` Eric Toombs
2020-02-26 10:01 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-02-26 14:03 ` Douglas Paul
2020-02-26 0:38 ` Stuart D. Gathman
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