On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> > Yes. To be more pedantic, the COW has copies of the original contents
> > of blocks written to the origin since the snapshot. That is why you
> > need to clear it to achieve your stated purpose. The origin blocks
> > are written normally to the *-real volume (you can see these in
> > the /dev/mapper directory).
> But didn't you say that there is only one copy of the files stored physically
> on disk?
Yes. When you make the snapshot, there is only one copy, and the COW table
is empty. AS YOU WRITE to the origin, each chunk written is saved to
*-cow first before being written to *-real.
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