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From: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Hardware snapshots and LVM2?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:38:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <170fa0d20603230838y173d14f5ib2692c87ab6b20ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <H000007200c27f69.1142968273.fsu50.nll.se@MHS>

On 3/21/06, fredrik.backman@nll.se <fredrik.backman@nll.se> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im doing a snapshot (hardware-based in EVA5000) of a LV
> (lvm2) and i
> wonder what is the correct way to use this snapshot?
> Problem is that
> this snapshot has the same ID as the original one. In HP-UX
> a would do a
> vgchgid on this snapshot-LV. Any help would be aprreciated.

You're creating snapshots of the entire block device.  As such the
snapshot device has identical LVM2 metadata as the origin device.  You
need to generate new PV, VG, LV UUIDs, modify the metadata and then
restore that modified metadata to the snapshot device (via
vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore).  EVMS has a decent random lvm2 UUID
generator function that can be pulled out and made to run standalone.

Mike

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-21 19:11 [linux-lvm] Hardware snapshots and LVM2? fredrik.backman
2006-03-21 20:53 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-03-21 22:12   ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-23 16:38 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]

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