On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Brian Neu wrote: > For many years, I've greatly desired a snapshotting solution which goes > above and beyond the current lvm features. I'd love to see the ability to > instantiate a storage pool for creating snapshots, with either a > first-in-first-out or even some other method for bumping snapshots when the > pool fills up. The inefficiency of the former style of lvm snapshots in > both space and speed and the cumbersome nature of managing them has kept me > looking for alternatives. Btrfs isn't quite there yet and may not be > through 2011 or beyond. zfs-fuse can't seem to act as a volume manager and > I'm having problems with crashes. Frustrated, I'm turning back to lvm. > > So now I'm looking at the lvm wiki and I'm seeing "shared exception > store". Can someone fill me in on the current status of this effort as > the wiki was last updated in May-2009 ? These guys have snapshot pools working as an addon product. It mostly works using straight device mapper - but they have a kernel patch that is needed for some deadlock issues. http://zumastor.org/ -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/
