From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Dearing Subject: Re: Question about OCFS1/2 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:48:09 -0500 Message-ID: <5458db3c05021708487c1968ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <5458db3c050217081558fe7fcd@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Justin Dearing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <5458db3c050217081558fe7fcd@mail.gmail.com> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Wait the xen kernel is 2.6 and the LVM howto and the errors I get from lvcreate -s indicate that I can't do snapshots on 2.6 becasue LVM2 doenst support snapshots yet. I think I'm back to using a clustering file system to enable backups.. On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:15:40 -0500, Justin Dearing wrote: > So I can create and mount a snapshot on the host OS of a LVM partition > that is being mounted RW by the guest OS (naturalyl the guest sees > them as /dev/hda* to minimize my confusion)? Theres no data integrity > issues there? > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:37:33 -0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > > > Just curious, what version of LVM are you using where snapshots are, > > > uhm, reliable :-). > > > > LVM snapshots work OK providing you a) use them as read-only backups, > > and b) make sure you allocate them enough disk space such that there's > > no danger of the snapshot filling. > > > > I wouldn't recommend using them to do CoW guest file systems, at least > > in a production environemnt. > > > > Ian > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click