-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Like many others, I'm interested in using LVM2 as a componet for a Linux-based file server. When needed, I had hoped to sacrifice disk space for long-term filesystem snapshots, by creating multiple snapshots and rotating them out on perhaps a weekly basis. The intent is to emulate the convenience and power of similar snapshot features in commercial file servers. My problem is, this does not currently look possible without a severe performance hit. If a volume has, for example, five active snapshots, then the deltas seem to get written five times, once per snapshot volume. Alternatively, I could use meta-snapshots, but they are not currently implemented, and that idea sounds klugy. So then do the LVM developers and users recommend against multiple concurrent snapshots of a volume? Should I keep hope for this great feature, only found in commercial file servers? Thanks for any input. - -- Jason Smith Open Enterprise Systems Bangkok, Thailand -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bgCmm5qEoSbpT3kRAjxRAJ9TNBPYJdAkMjfrW+vZdbGcsKXXiwCgmzCD FwlwesFuyYHYE1dsFIbmAv0= =1opb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
