From: Stuart D Gathman <stuart@gathman.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm limitations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:30:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.23.451.2009151726030.32184@mail.gathman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <257A9B1C-04AC-4EDE-9671-9E7A60104F9F@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, Tomas Dalebjörk wrote:
> ok, lets say that I have 10 LV on a server, and want create a thin lv
> snapshot every hour and keep that for 30 days that would be 24h *
> 30days * 10lv = 720 lv
> if I want to keep snapshot copies from more nodes, to serve a single
> repository of snapshot copies, than these would easily become several
> hundred thousands of lv
> not sure if this is a good idea, but I guess it can be very useful in
> some sense as block level incremental forever and instant recovery can
> be implemented for open sourced based applications
>
> what reflections do you have on this idea?
My feeling is that btrfs is a better solution for the hourly snapshots.
(Unless you are testing a filesystem :-)
I find "classic" LVs a robust replacement for partitions that are easily
resized without moving data around. I would be more likely to try
RAID features on classic LVs than thin LVs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-29 23:25 [linux-lvm] lvm limitations Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-08-30 17:33 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-08-30 18:01 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-08-30 19:30 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-01 13:21 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-09-15 19:16 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-15 20:08 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-15 21:24 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-15 21:30 ` Stuart D Gathman [this message]
2020-09-15 22:24 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-09-15 21:47 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-15 22:26 ` Gionatan Danti
2020-09-16 4:25 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-17 19:24 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-16 4:31 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-16 4:58 ` Tomas Dalebjörk
2020-09-17 19:17 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-17 19:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2020-09-14 6:03 Tomas Dalebjörk
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