On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:20 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Your making it too complicated. > > Effectively the snapshot immediately becomes the primary volume How can that be done? I thought the snapshot was simply a device which upon creation (i.e. before any writes to the origin) is just a series of block-by-block pointers to the origin. As blocks in the origin are changed, those blocks are copied down to the snapshot are replace the pointer to itself. So in the case where the origin has had 50% of it's blocks updated, in order for the snapshot to become the origin, that 50% which has been written down in to the snapshot need to be written back up into the origin (along with any blocks which were changed in the snapshot directly). How can the snapshot "immediately" become the primary volume if that data migration has to happen? b.
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