i'm sorry for breaking the thread, but i am reading responses through
web archive ;)
..
>> as i understand it, consistent copy is created when lvcreate is
>> issued, not when snapshot volume is mounted - is this right ?
> As i understood things, no. Mounttime matters ;-) see
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html> and as
example <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html>.
well, supposedly there is no way to see wether changes are propogated to
snapshot between lvcreate and mount because you must mount it to see
(reminds about cats & boxes) ;)
but there are two things that lead me to believe it is lvcreate that
matters :
1. "You should remove snapshot volume when you have finished with them
because they take a copy of all data written to the original volume and
this can hurt performance."
note, it says "remove", not unmount. additionally, you can easily mount
and unmount snapshot several times - it would be pretty hard to have a
consistent copy in such a case;
2. i did some testing before : created a snapshot (but did not mount
it), made some modifications to original data and checked wether used
space would increase for snapshot volume (with lvdisplay). well, it did
- so i assumed snapshot is created, well, when it is created :)
..
>> if it actually is done together with snapshot, does this mean that i
>> really can forget about xfs_freeze and just create snapshots ?
well, what about this part ?
from what i have read here and also in other places, xfs filesystem
should be consistent, but i would like to be sure (though i might try to
test this by simulating activity during lvcreate, i would prefer not to)
>> must i specify ro in mount options or is this optional ?
> Well, if i'm wrong ( and to be honest, i didn't play around with all
> the stuff for 1 1/2 years now :-( ) somebody might correct me, but if
> i remember postings from linux-xfs mailing list, rw-snapshots with XFS
> is not quite unstable ...
well, as i don't need r/w anyway, i'll stick with ro, just to be sure
then :)
> Cheers
> Klaus
--
Rich
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