From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:42:20 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM 0.8final for 2.2.15/2.2.16? Message-ID: <20000606164220.A6566@gruyere.muc.suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from paul@clubi.ie on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:51:54AM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Jakma Cc: Linux LVM list On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > is 0.8final going to be backported to 2.2? I'd love to have the > snapshot capabilities of 0.8final, but there's no way i'm going to > run 2.3/2.4test on a production machine. The SuSE 6.4 kernel contains a back port. You can download a source rpm from ftp.suse.com Note that the snapshots may not be as useful as you may think though - they are readonly and it is therefore impossible to replay a journal or run a fsck on them. This means you effectively can only take snapshots from unmounted file systems. -Andi