On Feb 06, 2002 11:58 +0100, Pierrick PONS wrote: > Andreas wrote: > > You need the "VFS-lock" patch, from the LVM CVS repository. > > I'm under 2.4.17, which patch do I have to get to use snapshot ? The > linux-2.4.11-VFS-lock.patch or linux-2.4.18-VFS-lock.patch ? Probably 2.4.11 is the right one. > Can I use whatever file system I want for snapshots ? Journaling filesystems need a special interface, but reiserfs, ext3, and XFS all support this interface. For non-journaled filesystems, it will just sync the device, but this is not 100% guaranteed to make the fs consistent. Also, when you mount an ext2 filesystem it will report the filesystem as dirty, but it will still mount, unlike ext3. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
