From: Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] expanding encrypted volume/growing the volume
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:00:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lur6o7$5ob$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140910234714.GG8520@markov.biostat.ucsf.edu>
On 09/10/2014 06:47 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> These are read-only snapshots created for the backup program. The
> backup program backs up the file system as seen through the snapshot..
>
> It does seem as if it would be easy for something to go wrong if the
> snapshot were active while the underlying volume grew. At a minimum,
> growing the file system would presumably use up a lot of space in the
> snapshot.
No reason to keep it, then. It's essentially an online copy of whatever
last went into the backup.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-11 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 21:52 [dm-crypt] expanding encrypted volume/growing the volume Ross Boylan
2014-09-09 23:50 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-10 3:23 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-10 4:30 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-10 5:16 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-10 8:16 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-10 9:42 ` Arno Wagner
2014-09-10 1:59 ` Robert Nichols
2014-09-10 3:31 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-10 13:25 ` Robert Nichols
2014-09-10 20:36 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-10 22:44 ` Robert Nichols
2014-09-10 22:52 ` Robert Nichols
2014-09-10 23:47 ` Ross Boylan
2014-09-11 4:00 ` Robert Nichols [this message]
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