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From: Rik Herrin <rikherrin@yahoo.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM2 Snapshots Question
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:06:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061022110659.82422.qmail@web52911.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)

Hi,
  I had a question regarding LVM2 snapshots.  I read the following about snapshots (taken from 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html):

"This facility does require that the snapshot be made at a time when the data on the logical volume is in a consistent state - the VFS-lock patch for LVM1 makes sure that some filesystems do this automatically when a snapshot is created, and many of the filesystems in the 2.6 kernel do this automatically when a snapshot is created without patching."

Does this mean that I don't have to unmount (or remount ro) a partition if I'm using a 2.6 kernel to take a snapshot and I can rest assured that the logical volume will be in a consistent state?  Thanks for your help.

             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-22 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-22 11:06 Rik Herrin [this message]
2006-10-22 11:12 ` [linux-lvm] LVM2 Snapshots Question Alasdair G Kergon

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