From: Chris Cox <chris_cox@stercomm.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] ANNOUNCE: an experimental implementation of snapshot merging
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:43:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1212525819.19122.16.camel@behemoth.csg.stercomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806031516380.20514@engineering.redhat.com>
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:26 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here I release the first experimental implementation of snapshot merging.
> Merging allows you to copy data in snapshot back to the origin device.
> Once merging starts, it runs on background. When the merging finishes (you
> see "0%" with "lvs" command), you should remove the merging snapshot with
> lvremove command.
I would think this would be VERY hard to do since both the "origin" and
"snapshot" change (file deletes, etc). Do you have a set of rules you
use for the merge?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 19:26 [linux-lvm] ANNOUNCE: an experimental implementation of snapshot merging Mikulas Patocka
2008-06-03 20:32 ` Brian J. Murrell
2008-06-04 11:07 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-06-04 14:07 ` Brian J. Murrell
2008-06-05 15:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-06-03 20:43 ` Chris Cox [this message]
2008-06-03 20:51 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-06-03 23:38 ` Brian J. Murrell
2008-06-04 0:05 ` Chris Cox
2008-06-04 0:20 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-06-04 2:57 ` Brian J. Murrell
2008-06-04 3:23 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2008-06-04 11:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-06-04 10:56 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-06-04 14:01 ` Steeve McCauley
2008-06-05 15:01 ` Mikulas Patocka
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