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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] multiple levels of snapshots
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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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