From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3MGphhF010839 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:51:43 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3MGpW2V010175 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:51:32 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b17so1256433rvf.51 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:31 -0700 From: "Dan Kegel" Sender: daniel.r.kegel@gmail.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshot question... In-Reply-To: <1208880734.7871.86.camel@pc.ilinx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <480DBE54.1090406@Media-Brokers.com> <1208880734.7871.86.camel@pc.ilinx> 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" To: LVM general discussion and development 2008/4/22 Brian J. Murrell : > Zumastor claim to have solved that with their snapshots. I'd love to > have time to play with it, indeed. > > If Zumastor are here listening, can you answer, are there any plans to > get your snapshots into the main kernel tree? We're listening. The patches are a little invasive (they touch the VM system -- zumastor triggers an old deadlock in the kernel, and we have a fix for it), so it's not clear they will be accepted unless zumastor has proven itself in the field. We're working on increasing our usability and performance now to attract more users. i.e. we're slowly making our ubuntu packages (including the kernel flavor) follow all the debian and ubuntu rules, and are now building them in a ppa at launchpad for hardy. We also have fairly good Gentoo support. (Sorry, we didn't have any Fedora people on the project, so no Fedora packaging yet.) - Dan