From: Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] What is the use of thin snapshots if the external origin cannot be set to writable ?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:01:47 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMaziXvr12btCFAXLspFFUWwvHSpX3ZO237ys3X5kF9L59zzUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201125123853.GB2419337@localhost.localdomain>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 664 bytes --]
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:50 PM Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com> wrote:
> You can, it's just typically easier for most users to re-install than to
> execute the necessary steps to convert the system after the fact.
>
> If you have sufficient space then you can just create a thin pool, copy
> your existing file systems into it and then fix up the fstab, grub boot
> entries, initramfs and any other configuration that may still reference
> the old device names. Once you're finished you can remove the original
> volumes and reclaim the space for use by the thin pool.
>
Yes, I have migrated to thin pools successfully. Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1127 bytes --]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-25 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-21 3:10 Sreyan Chakravarty
2020-11-23 12:44 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-11-23 13:04 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2020-11-24 11:59 ` Sreyan Chakravarty
2020-11-25 8:46 ` Sreyan Chakravarty
2020-11-25 12:38 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2020-11-25 15:31 ` Sreyan Chakravarty [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAMaziXvr12btCFAXLspFFUWwvHSpX3ZO237ys3X5kF9L59zzUg@mail.gmail.com \
--to=sreyan32@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-lvm@redhat.com \
--subject='Re: [linux-lvm] What is the use of thin snapshots if the external origin cannot be set to writable ?' \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).