Re: Snapshot limit?

[Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten@vxcompany.com>]

I agree, but that doesn't answer my questions ;-)

Met vriendelijke groeten,

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23 2012 at  5:00am -0400,

Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten@vxcompany.com> wrote:

> O, I forgot: I am using LVM2 on RHEL 6.3. That is LVM2 version 2.02.87.
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,

> *
> Fred van Zwieten
> *
> *Enterprise Open Source Services*
> *
> Consultant*
> *(vrijdags afwezig)*
>
> *VX Company IT Services B.V.*
> *T* (035) 539 09 50 mobiel (06) 41 68 28 48
> *F* (035) 539 09 08
> *E* fvzwieten@vxcompany.com
> *I*  www.vxcompany.com

>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Fred van Zwieten
> <fvzwieten@vxcompany.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know is there is a limit on the amount of snapshots one
> > can take from a single LV.
> >
> > I have a single LV with a very low changerate, but I have a retention
> > requirement of about 150 readonly snapshots for it. Is it is at all
> > possible, will there be a performance hit?
> >
> > Fred

> > **

You definitely want to make use of the snapshots provided via the new
thinp target (NOTE: thinp is still tech preview in RHEL6.3).

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