On 5/1/2008 2:15 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
Why? What value is the old snapshot at this point?
? It holds all of the changes to your original (snapshotted) volume, so I imagine it would be pretty important to most people?
I'm not really understanding all the inner-workings of LVM, but now I can see why using a ram disk for an LVM snapshot might not be a very good idea for this one reason - it won't survive a reboot...
You just had a system reboot in the middle of a snapshotted backup so all you need to do is get the system up, redo another snapshot and retake your backup. I'm not interested in the old snapshot.
I would be... but thats just me... -- Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ 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/
