On mar, 2004-07-13 at 14:09, Manu Tayal wrote: > Hi, > I am supposed to be writing a snapshot driver which can be used to take a > snapshot of any volume on the Linux box irrespective of whether the volume is > a part of EVMS or LVM. The device mapper module has the snapshot code with > it. Can somebody advise me whether it will be a good idea to use that > snap-shot code and convert it into an independent driver? > the current device mapper snapshot target already does what you want. You seem to describe a lightweight userland parser (evms & lvm[2] metadata) tool to drive that target. regards, cvaroqui