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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	"Davis, Matthew" <Matthew.Davis.2@team.telstra.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] how to copy a snapshot, or restore snapshot without deleting it
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:32:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17262222-82a9-e5cc-5c2c-13e11d424644@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SYBPR01MB393109FBE5C800688A72F90BC29C0@SYBPR01MB3931.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com>

Dne 18. 01. 19 v 1:53 Davis, Matthew napsal(a):
> Hi Zdenek,
> 
> I assumed that LVM thin snapshots would work like git branches.
> Since git also uses diffs on the backend, and git is popular with developers, the same kind of behaviour seems reasonable to me.
> 

Hi

There is very good reason why the git is not really a good tool for storing 
binary data...

Your use-case is 'very specific' sub-case of many different usability 
scenarios you can do with lvm2 -  so while you might see some potential 
benefit if the lvm2 would work more closely to git logic,
it would look terrible in many other situations.

Zdenek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-21 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-03  4:46 [linux-lvm] how to copy a snapshot, or restore snapshot without deleting it Davis, Matthew
2019-01-03  9:32 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-01-03 14:09 ` Marian Csontos
2019-01-10  6:23   ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-10  9:45     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-14 22:44       ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-15 10:49         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-15 23:03           ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-16 13:55             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-17  1:12               ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-17  9:21                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-18  0:53                   ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-18  9:34                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-21 10:32                     ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
2019-01-28 11:49                       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-01-30 23:58                         ` Davis, Matthew
2019-01-10 14:34     ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2019-01-11 19:29       ` Sarah Newman

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