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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 snapshots on root fs
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:26:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094581563.9586.98.camel@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040907181748.GD6264@agk.surrey.redhat.com>

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On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 19:17 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> 
> We don't support pvmove or snapshots of volumes used by the tools themselves.

That seems rather limiting.  Is this something that should change in the
future?

> It is possible to snapshot the root volume, but the method is probably 
> distribution-specific.

Like what?  Using a copy of the /sbin/lvm2 binary not living in the
rootfs when you want to snapshot it?  What about /lib/libdevmapper.so.*?
Does it have the same problem?

b.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 11:03 [linux-lvm] LVM2 snapshots on root fs Thomas Klaube
2004-09-07 18:17 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-09-07 18:26   ` Brian J. Murrell [this message]
2004-09-08 11:58     ` Thomas Klaube

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