> No, backups do not mean snapshots. > Snapshots are merely a way to take backups of a consistent view of the filesystem... [...] > Don't mix them up, you'll be really really unhappy. Wll, I may not be fully awoken yet, but what is the interrest of having non-consistent backups ? For sure, backuping implies one of : 1. Forbidding write access to data for users 2. Having the capability to have snapshots. > You're blaming the wrong part of the system for your data loss. First > off blame the user/sysadmin who set it up, then blame the person who > put Linear RAID on your system and into MD/LVM. :] Hey, I already said I was wrong :-p. The point is, as I still wish to keep it small & simple (kiss :-), LVM has, no matter how deep I study it, an impact over complexity. > Umm... not exactly. He's more a pain in the butt to deal with at > times, with an abrasive personality which only seems to care about his > projects. He doesn't like working with other people to make it FS > work within the Linux kernel designs and philosophy. I didn't know it... Pity, he sometimes has great ideas... > All my opinion of course. Plus, I've been a bunch of horror stories > about Resierfs3 problems, though I admit not recently, say the past > six months to a year. But resierfs4 I wouldn't deploy production data > on yet... I agree with that now. You all convinced me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
