* Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
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@ 2005-09-23 20:11 ` Blaisorblade
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From: Blaisorblade @ 2005-09-23 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alasdair G Kergon; +Cc: LKML, user-mode-linux-devel, user-mode-linux-user
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 17:48, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:34:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ack?
>
> Applied some quick corrections to this.
I'm now looking at this, but you've done an error. You say that
You must create the snapshot-origin device before you can create snapshots.
This is totally wrong. The whole point of my document is to show that you can
create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device (yes, I did it).
And while the LVM setup (with snapshot-origin) is often used and well known,
the possibility to do without the snapshot-origin, and more important to
write on the snapshots, is something which is not widely known at all.
In fact, UML community has been using an in-house version of the same feature,
which cannot be mounted on the host due to missing code.
> See also http://people.redhat.com/agk/talks/FOSDEM_2005/
> (slides 15-27)
Not yet had time to look at those, sorry.
> You might like to convert some of those diagrams to ASCII
> and include them?
If you feel like doing this, ok, but I'm not normally a documentor.
> Alasdair
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* [uml-devel] Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
@ 2005-09-23 20:11 ` Blaisorblade
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From: Blaisorblade @ 2005-09-23 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alasdair G Kergon; +Cc: LKML, user-mode-linux-devel, user-mode-linux-user
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 17:48, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:34:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ack?
>
> Applied some quick corrections to this.
I'm now looking at this, but you've done an error. You say that
You must create the snapshot-origin device before you can create snapshots.
This is totally wrong. The whole point of my document is to show that you can
create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device (yes, I did it).
And while the LVM setup (with snapshot-origin) is often used and well known,
the possibility to do without the snapshot-origin, and more important to
write on the snapshots, is something which is not widely known at all.
In fact, UML community has been using an in-house version of the same feature,
which cannot be mounted on the host due to missing code.
> See also http://people.redhat.com/agk/talks/FOSDEM_2005/
> (slides 15-27)
Not yet had time to look at those, sorry.
> You might like to convert some of those diagrams to ASCII
> and include them?
If you feel like doing this, ok, but I'm not normally a documentor.
> Alasdair
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* Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
2005-09-23 20:11 ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
@ 2005-09-23 21:19 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2005-09-23 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Blaisorblade; +Cc: LKML, user-mode-linux-devel, user-mode-linux-user
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device
Checking the code, yes you're correct.
When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed.
Alasdair
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* [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
@ 2005-09-23 21:19 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2005-09-23 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Blaisorblade; +Cc: LKML, user-mode-linux-devel, user-mode-linux-user
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device
Checking the code, yes you're correct.
When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed.
Alasdair
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* Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
2005-09-23 21:19 ` [uml-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
@ 2005-09-26 15:03 ` Blaisorblade
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From: Blaisorblade @ 2005-09-26 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: user-mode-linux-devel; +Cc: Alasdair G Kergon, LKML, user-mode-linux-user
On Friday 23 September 2005 23:19, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device
> Checking the code, yes you're correct.
> When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed.
You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter
n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too?
IIRC I checked the code and it looks up the first param as a DM device, even
because the list of snapshot is maintained for DM devices, not for general
block devices.
Right?
> Alasdair
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* Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
@ 2005-09-26 15:03 ` Blaisorblade
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From: Blaisorblade @ 2005-09-26 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: user-mode-linux-devel; +Cc: Alasdair G Kergon, LKML, user-mode-linux-user
On Friday 23 September 2005 23:19, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device
> Checking the code, yes you're correct.
> When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed.
You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter
n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too?
IIRC I checked the code and it looks up the first param as a DM device, even
because the list of snapshot is maintained for DM devices, not for general
block devices.
Right?
> Alasdair
--
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* Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
2005-09-26 15:03 ` Blaisorblade
@ 2005-09-27 18:34 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2005-09-27 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Blaisorblade
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel, Alasdair G Kergon, LKML, user-mode-linux-user
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter
> n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too?
That parameter does not need to be a DM device if you are able to use
the start of an existing block device (so you don't require any mappings).
> IIRC I checked the code and it looks up the first param as a DM device,
It should only use the device number for reference, not any dm structure.
Try it.
Alasdair
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* Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)
@ 2005-09-27 18:34 ` Alasdair G Kergon
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2005-09-27 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Blaisorblade
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel, Alasdair G Kergon, LKML, user-mode-linux-user
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter
> n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too?
That parameter does not need to be a DM device if you are able to use
the start of an existing block device (so you don't require any mappings).
> IIRC I checked the code and it looks up the first param as a DM device,
It should only use the device number for reference, not any dm structure.
Try it.
Alasdair
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