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[Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning



> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:31 PM,  <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>>> On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:08 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>>>>
>
[snip]
> In any case, I was curious and found the following web pages which
> seem relevant:
>
> http://sourceware.org/lvm2/wiki/FeatureRequests/dm/snapshots  (feature
> request page from 2009)
>
I saw this paper, which started me thinking.

> which says that neither snapshot cloning nor taking a snapshot of a
> snapshot is currently possible as well as:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2008-November/msg00000.html
>
I saw this post and there were so many issues with it, I wouldn't even
call it wrong. :-)


> which gives several hacky ways to do snapshot cloning.   I would
> suggest more investigation/careful testing before depending on this
> though.


Do you use LVM? Want to test some utilities I am writing?




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