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From: Tony Asleson <tasleson@redhat.com>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: master - python-lvm: Make second lv.snapshot() argument optional
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:51:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CF3179.8090406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50CCECF7.8000809@redhat.com>

On 12/15/2012 03:34 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
 > 2) using same size of origin is not enough to cover
>    i.e. full rewrite of origin device - you need some
>    'extra' size to store snapshot's metadata (remapping blocks)

How does a user calculate the correct size?

I would like to see an option to pass on snapshot creation that can
safely create a snapshot where every block can get written.

Regards,
Tony



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-17 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-14 22:11 master - python-lvm: Make second lv.snapshot() argument optional Andy Grover
2012-12-15 21:34 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-16  2:27   ` Andy Grover
2012-12-16 18:58     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2012-12-17 14:51   ` Tony Asleson [this message]

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