On Nov Sun 30 2008 16:37, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:06:48PM +0100, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html > > **If the snapshot size equals the origin size, it will never overflow.** > > That's simply inaccurate and should be corrected. I agree with you, but it would be much more interesting to see why it is incorrect. I mean, as I mentioned in my email, why are those chunks used upfront? By doing that, the whole nice idea of a snapshot breaks completely. It would be much, much better to account for that and move those chunks out of the snapshot. -- .''`. : :' : J. Javier Maestro `. `'` <jjmaestro@ieee.org> `- _______________________________________________ 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/
