From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (dhcp-100-19-150.bos.redhat.com [10.16.19.150]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o8KDghne022785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:42:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:42:42 -0400 From: Mike Snitzer Message-ID: <20100920134241.GA27548@redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] restoring snapshots Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, Sep 20 2010 at 9:15am -0400, Kinzel, David wrote: > >Is there any plan to add the feature to efficiently > >restore/apply/commit a snapshot (that is only dump the cow data > >onto the original volume without writing the whole volume) or > >does that feature exist already and I missed it? > > The newer versions do have the lvmerge feature, and it seems to work in > RHEL6 beta from what I could see. Yes, and the changes are also upstream, see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2010-February/msg00029.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2010-May/msg00017.html Mike