From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] restoring snapshots
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:42:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920134241.GA27548@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F57F2AD357626644AF76410876025D75529E4F@CGYEX705.encana.com>
On Mon, Sep 20 2010 at 9:15am -0400,
Kinzel, David <David.Kinzel@encana.com> wrote:
> >Is there any plan to add the feature to efficiently
> >restore/apply/commit a snapshot (that is only dump the cow data
> >onto the original volume without writing the whole volume) or
> >does that feature exist already and I missed it?
>
> The newer versions do have the lvmerge feature, and it seems to work in
> RHEL6 beta from what I could see.
Yes, and the changes are also upstream, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2010-February/msg00029.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2010-May/msg00017.html
Mike
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2010-09-20 11:16 [linux-lvm] restoring snapshots Stephane Chazelas
2010-09-20 13:15 ` Kinzel, David
2010-09-20 13:42 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
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