From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6L9PPrw021501 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:25:26 -0400 Received: from [10.33.0.40] (breeves.fab.redhat.com [10.33.0.40]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6L9PPg6010752 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:25:25 -0400 Message-ID: <48845605.7010004@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:25:25 +0100 From: "Bryn M. Reeves" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Split LV mirror or something References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: bmr@redhat.com, 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" To: LVM general discussion and development -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Levy Abinajm Melero Sant'Anna wrote: > Dear Stuart and list, > > I was thinking about snapshot and copy, but it looks like "less > professional" than split a LV mirror. > I can explain: When I copy is difficult to say that I kept the same > permissions and ownership; Different of a mirror, that the process really > guarantee by itself that the data is still with the same characteristic. If you do a block-by-block copy (e.g. dd) then you needn't worry about ownership/permissions. These will be preserved since you are just taking a complete copy of the file system data. It would be useful to have a command that could perform a data clone of an LV in this way. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIhFYF6YSQoMYUY94RAgTvAJkBqGZRcC4g3rtmBodEe+gBT6vLzwCgtfFc zJQpOGlDQcG5TuyyQVv+gT0= =zeBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----