From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u69KP7sq014686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 16:25:07 -0400 Received: from friday.buadh-brath.com (drochaid.buadh-brath.com [45.33.103.245]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4407A8553D for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2016 20:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 107-138-158-92.lightspeed.rlghnc.sbcglobal.net ([107.138.158.92] helo=buadh-brath.com) by friday.buadh-brath.com with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bLyoD-0001Jo-3c for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:25:05 +0000 Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 16:25:03 -0400 From: Brian McCullough Message-ID: <20160709202503.GB5404@bdmcc-us.com> References: <20160708155231.GA27423@bdmcc-us.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Copying a raw disk image to LVM2 Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 10:33:51PM +0500, ???????? ?????????????????? wrote: > One note: `sync` does not syncs written data, since it affects only > data, written through filesystem. You should use `dd .... > conv=fdatasync` instead. Thank you both. This is essentially the answer that I got from the Xen group, as well, so I went ahead and tried it. No problems. Brian