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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] root filesystem snapshots
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sorry to be a pest about this, but can anyone tell me what the criteria
for snapshots on root to fail?

all LVM2?
LVM2 with 2.6 kernel only?

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:59, rich turner wrote:
> is only not supported with LVM2? i am almost certain this worked with
> earlier versions of LVM.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:32, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:19:51PM -0800, rich turner wrote:
> > > in the past i have read a number of posts related to problems with doing
> > > snapshots of logical volumes that contain the root filesystem. 
> > 
> > Simply not supported yet.
> > 
> > Some changes in WHATS_NEW move towards supporting it - in particular 
> > a kernel with headers supporting the O_NOATIME change in 2.00.23 is a
> > pre-requisite.
> > 
> > Alasdair
> 
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