From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] efficiently copying snapshot data.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:50:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100710155031.GA26290@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1007092051070.29512@bmsred.bmsi.com>
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 09:01:02PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> Copy to a regular LV on the target system, and then do some dmsetup
> and metadata magic to turn the LV (which is a copy of a COW table) into a
> snapshot of the master LV with the COW already populated.
> I don't think such a utility exists.
lvconvert -s does this, regardless of what the man page might lead you
to believe!
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-10 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 23:47 [linux-lvm] efficiently copying snapshot data Michael Closson
2010-07-10 0:38 ` Ray Morris
2010-07-10 1:01 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-07-10 1:14 ` Ray Morris
2010-07-10 15:50 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2010-07-12 21:25 ` Michael Closson
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