From: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:37:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481A1C09.7070508@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481A0E28.5030108@Media-Brokers.com>
Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 5/1/2008 2:15 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Why? What value is the old snapshot at this point?
>
> ? It holds
(a copy of)
> all of the changes to your original (snapshotted) volume, so I imagine
> it would be pretty important to most people?
>
> I'm not really understanding all the inner-workings of LVM, but now I
> can see why using a ram disk for an LVM snapshot might not be a very
> good idea for this one reason - it won't survive a reboot...
>
>> You just had a system reboot in the middle of a snapshotted backup so
>> all you need to do is get the system up, redo another snapshot and
>> retake your backup. I'm not interested in the old snapshot.
>
> I would be... but thats just me...
It's like yesterday's newspaper. Why do you need to keep it?
Gerry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 0:53 [linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 2:29 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 3:51 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 14:00 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 15:09 ` Larry Dickson
2008-04-30 17:23 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 18:19 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 18:28 ` Charles Marcus
2008-04-30 20:24 ` Gerry Reno
2008-04-30 21:19 ` Milan Broz
2008-04-30 22:30 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 15:48 ` malahal
2008-05-01 16:30 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-05-01 18:15 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 18:38 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-01 19:37 ` Gerry Reno [this message]
2008-05-01 19:42 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-01 19:53 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 20:03 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-01 20:21 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 20:25 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-05-01 20:30 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 20:34 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-01 20:36 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 20:44 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-01 20:57 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 21:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-05-01 22:12 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-01 23:50 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-02 0:38 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-05-02 0:47 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-05-02 2:03 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-02 8:14 ` Marek Podmaka
2008-05-02 14:00 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-02 14:14 ` Charles Marcus
2008-05-02 14:25 ` Larry Dickson
2008-05-02 14:45 ` Marek Podmaka
2008-05-02 14:38 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-05-02 14:47 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2008-05-02 15:05 ` Marek Podmaka
2008-05-02 15:17 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-05-02 15:30 ` Gerry Reno
2008-05-02 15:36 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2008-05-03 2:27 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-05-04 0:45 ` [linux-lvm] Temporary shapshots Stuart D. Gathman
2008-05-05 14:30 ` Larry Dickson
2008-05-05 14:45 ` Charles Marcus
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