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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: alewis@rackable.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM snapshots overflow due to initial "overhead"?
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:37:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081130163733.GH13235@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081130160648.GA11393@2jotas.com>

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:06:48PM +0100, J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
>     **If the snapshot size equals the origin size, it will never overflow.**

That's simply inaccurate and should be corrected.

Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-30 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-30 16:06 [linux-lvm] LVM snapshots overflow due to initial "overhead"? J. Javier Maestro
2008-11-30 16:37 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2008-11-30 18:19   ` J. Javier Maestro

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