From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:30:48 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM 0.8final for 2.2.15/2.2.16? In-Reply-To: <20000606164220.A6566@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linux LVM list On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > The SuSE 6.4 kernel contains a back port. You can download a source > rpm from ftp.suse.com > uhmm... but an officially sanctioned patch blessed by Heinz would be nicer.. :) > Note that the snapshots may not be as useful as you may think > though - they are readonly they have to be by their very nature... :) > and it is therefore impossible to > replay a journal or run a fsck on them. why would you want to? snapshots main application is for providing a 'snapshot' of a point in time so you can make a consistent backup of the data, esp for large/frequently modified databases. which is precisely what i want snapshots for. > This means you effectively can only take > snapshots from unmounted file systems. > eh? but a snapshot is not ever meant to be used directly as an alternate filesystem, so there's no point running fsck on it.. ?? > -Andi > > -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt ------------------------------------------- Fortune: The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly. They were just the first not to crash.