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From: g.danti@assyoma.it
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Retrieve changed block with snapshots
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:00:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc995dfc593a1d581b7db5c19fb11ea@assyoma.it> (raw)

Hi all,
I'm using LVM2 as VM backend and I am very happy with the result.

One thing that I feel useful but that I can't figure how to get working 
is to use snapshots to obtain the list of changed block after the 
snapshot was taken.

To be more clear:
- immagine to have a LV called "LV1"
- take a snapshot of "LV1" and name it "SNAP1"
- now "SNAP1" has a point-in-time image of "LV1", and by reading from 
it I can go "back in time" to when I issued the snapshot
- but how I can get the list of only the changed block between "LV1" 
and "SNAP1"?

Its my understanding that some Ruby/Python scripts can read the COW 
table and retrieve the list of the changed block, however I am not so 
inclined to use them on production server. So, we have a method _inside_ 
the current LVM tools that enable us to retrieve the changed block list?

Regards.

                 reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 21:00 UTC|newest]

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