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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] multiple levels of snapshots
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070423185803.GM26983@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd8dc0d20704231154l4a512d7ag2df2405ebcb17cd2@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:54:37PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> From what I can see, LVM tools don't allow creating multiple levels of
> snapshots (i.e. creating a
> snapshot of a snapshot). Is this a fundamental property of LVM/device
> mapper architecture
> or is it that this feature simply hasn't made it to LVM (yet)?

You could indeed set it up outside LVM using dmsetup.
 
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-23 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-23 18:54 [linux-lvm] multiple levels of snapshots Boris Ostrovsky
2007-04-23 18:58 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
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2007-04-26 14:00 Boris Ostrovsky

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