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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@btconnect.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Some ideas regarding snapshots (was: Reiserfs, 2.4.7, snapshots w/ 0.9)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:39:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010726133938.A723@btconnect.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010726135514.B26425@tiger.bigcats.invalid>; from weissel@netcologne.de on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:55:14PM +0200

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:55:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Iain Campbell (iain@sandon.ca) wrote 64 lines:
> > Quote from Teigland and Mauelshagens's Volume Manager whitepaper:
> 
> > journalled file system. These operations (fsck or journal replay) require 
> > writing to  the snapshot ligical volume, which is not allowed."
> 
> On a related subject: would it be possible to have a writable
> snapshot (probably a 'reverse' snapshot)?

Writeable snapshot's are easy to implement, I believe someone has
already made a patch for the current LVM series (search the list).  I
certainly intend putting it into the experimental LVM branch soon.

- Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-26 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-25 15:36 [linux-lvm] Reiserfs, 2.4.7, snapshots w/ 0.9 Mark Bainter
2001-07-25 15:46 ` Iain Campbell
2001-07-25 19:45   ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-07-26 11:55   ` [linux-lvm] Some ideas regarding snapshots (was: Reiserfs, 2.4.7, snapshots w/ 0.9) Wolfgang Weisselberg
2001-07-26 12:39     ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2001-07-25 19:44 ` [linux-lvm] Reiserfs, 2.4.7, snapshots w/ 0.9 Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-07-25 23:57   ` José Luis Domingo López

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