On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 06:39, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:24, Enrico Scholz > <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx (Matthew Miller) writes: > > >> Well, it's not quite the same thing. You can't safely dump a live > > >> filesystem, making it unusable for me. Also it's far less granular > > >> than an archiver like tar or dar. > > > > > > Have you looked at making lvm snapshots and dumping those? > > > > LVM snapshots are not usably at the moment: for kernel 2.4 they work with > > a kernel patch only, and for kernel 2.6 they are marked as experimental > > which is confirmed by my experiences (kernel-panics on creation and manual > > cleanup required). > > FC2 has kernel 2.6 but doesn't have snapshot support. Outdated info. The release kernel and the first few errata kernel didn't have support. Update to a recent/latest errata kernel and you'll be set. find /lib/modules -name dm-snapshot.ko Dax Kelson Guru Labs
