Snapshot creation is already pretty fast: > $ time sudo lvcreate --size 512M --snapshot --name snap /dev/testdbs/template > Logical volume "snap" created. > 0.03user 0.05system 0:00.46elapsed 18%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 28916maxresident)k > 768inputs+9828outputs (0major+6315minor)pagefaults 0swaps That's about half a second in real time. But I have a scenario that would benefit from it being even faster. I'm doing many small unit tests starting from a template filesystem. I do the snapshot, run the unit test on the snapshot, then delete the snapshot afterwards using lvremove. Each unit test, though, takes much less than a second to run (often on the order of 10ms), so most of the time is being spent making these snapshots. So, is there a sort of "dumber" way of making these snapshots, maybe by changing the allocation algorithm or something? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
