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From: R Dicaire <rdicaire@kritek.net>
To: lvm <linux-lvm@sistina.com>
Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] mounting snapshot errors
Date: Wed Jan 28 02:30:02 2004	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075274923.337.23.camel@ws.rdb.linux-help.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BBB7C9EFEF1874BAC4DC204E867EFAF02560F62@s99mail06>

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:53, Little, Chris wrote:
> is the filesystem you are snapshotting still mounted when you execute the
> snapshot?  They need to be offline before the snapshot takes place.

Yes, they are still mounted when I take a snapshot, I must have missed that
in the docs, that in itself poses a problem as I then cant umount the volumes
without killing services. I'd understood the snapshotting process as being
able to snapshot a live filesystem, and then mount the snapshot to perform
backups from it instead of the live filesystem. Whats the purpose of the
--size arg to lvcreate when taking a snapshot, I thought it was a buffer
to hold data that'd normally be written to disk but cant when the
snapshot exists? I'm confused.

> -- 
>       aRDy Music
> http://www.ardynet.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27 21:54 [linux-lvm] mounting snapshot errors Little, Chris
2004-01-28  2:30 ` R Dicaire [this message]
2004-01-28 12:48   ` Greg Freemyer
2004-01-28 13:23     ` Chris Beck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-27 19:02 R Dicaire

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