afternoon collector lvm reading GS update: single auth db check ebay bmi virtual machine zimbra schedule downtime: snapshot conversion zimbra security updates Hi, Section 3.8 "Snapshots" of the LVM Howto has a scary warning after the first paragraph (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html), with a caveat in the last sentence: "If the snapshot size equals the origin size, it will never overflow." What exactly does this mean? Does this imply that it's safe to use "long-term" snapshots whose size is equal to the origin's size, without worrying about effects of significant divergence from the original? Long-term to me is 3yrs as the root fs of a (Xen domU) mail server. Note that in this case, writes to the root fs will be limited to logs (/var/log) and software updates. Mailboxes live on a separate, non-snapshot logical volume. Thanks, Dane _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
