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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:37:33 +0000
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM snapshots overflow due to initial "overhead"?
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:06:48PM +0100, J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
>     **If the snapshot size equals the origin size, it will never overflow.**

That's simply inaccurate and should be corrected.

Alasdair
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