From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Best practice: metadata backup
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:56:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0708071653390.17321-100000@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070807190153.GV2064@agk.fab.redhat.com>
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > When grub supports LVM, and the entire disk is LVM (no partition table),
> > how will backups be made?
>
> Just like any other file backups - tape, CD, internet: you choose!
I meant metadata backups. AIX keeps a copy on each physical volume
(using quorum to ensure a majority of the copies agree). I was wondering
how linux LVM would handle metadata backup on an all LVM system. Seems
like you would still need a small non LVM filesystem just for that.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 4:17 [linux-lvm] Best practice: metadata backup Stuart D. Gathman
2007-08-07 19:01 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-08-07 20:56 ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]
2007-08-07 21:34 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-08-08 19:03 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2007-08-08 21:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-08-09 7:23 ` John Hearns
2007-08-07 21:44 ` paddy
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