From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Jon@eHardcastle.com,
LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Snapshots
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:32:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090917143227.GA9750@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515267.47209.qm@web51301.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
On Thu, Sep 17 2009 at 10:24am -0400,
Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do I need some free extents to create a READ ONLY snapshot? I dont
> have free extents but require a read-only snapshot before doing an
> upgrade.
Yes, even though you intend to only read from the snapshot the upgrade
will cause data to be copied out from the origin to the snapshot. So
you definitely need some free extents.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 14:24 [linux-lvm] Snapshots Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-17 14:32 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2009-09-17 14:37 ` Peter Keller
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2009-09-10 23:25 jonr
2009-09-11 13:44 ` [linux-lvm] Snapshots Mike Snitzer
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