From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Shane <shane@cm.nu>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5/lvm setup questions
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:32:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D7BF7B.4010408@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzagz5d2.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
Nix wrote:
> On 5 Aug 2006, David Greaves prattled cheerily:
that's me :)
>> As an example of the cons: I've just set up lvm2 over my raid5 and whilst
>> testing snapshots, the first thing that happened was a kernel BUG and an oops...
>
> I've been backing up using writable snapshots on LVM2 over RAID-5 for
> some time. No BUGs.
I tried but it didn't recurr.
I sent a report to lkml.
> I think the blame here is likely to be layable at the snapshots' door,
> anyway: they're still a little wobbly and the implementation is pretty
> complex: bugs surface on a regular basis.
Hmmm. Bugs in a backup strategy. Hmmm.
I think I can live with a nightly shutdown of the daemons whilst rsync does it's
stuff across the LAN.
David
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-05 17:31 ` raid5/lvm setup questions David Greaves
[not found] ` <20060805175908.GA31024@cm.nu>
2006-08-05 21:02 ` Martin Schröder
2006-08-07 23:29 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-07 19:57 ` Nix
[not found] ` <20060807200455.GA29837@cm.nu>
2006-08-07 20:20 ` Chet McNeill
2006-08-07 22:28 ` David Greaves
2006-08-07 22:32 ` David Greaves [this message]
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