[release-notes] Yum initiated filesystem snapshots!

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 13 02:25:50 UTC 2013


commit 38288d400b3a3d9b6b092e0830b49dffe916755a
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun May 12 20:25:24 2013 -0600

    Yum initiated filesystem snapshots!

 en-US/Server_Configuration_Tools.xml |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Server_Configuration_Tools.xml b/en-US/Server_Configuration_Tools.xml
index 04d5477..7b77604 100644
--- a/en-US/Server_Configuration_Tools.xml
+++ b/en-US/Server_Configuration_Tools.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,20 @@
   </section>
   
   <section>
+    <title>Yum-enabled LVM snapshots</title>
+    <para>
+      By using the <package>yum-plugin-fs-snapshot</package> package, thinly provisioned LVM filesystems can be automatically snapshot on package updates.
+    </para>
+    <para> 
+      Existing thinly provisioned volumes are required. Snapshotting is enabled in the plugin's configuration file at <filename>/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fs-snapshot.conf</filename>:
+      <simplelist>
+        <member>Set <function>enabled=1</function> in the <emphasis>[lvm]</emphasis> section to enable.</member>
+        <member>set <function>create_snapshots_in_post=1</function> in the <emphasis>[main]</emphasis> section to create a snapshot after the yum transaction.</member>
+      </simplelist>
+    </para>
+  </section>
+  
+  <section>
     <title>Easier Administration with <package>OpenLMI</package></title>
     <para>
       The OpenLMI infrastructure has been greatly improved. A new storage API, monitoring, hardware information, realmd, firewall providers have been added. Improvements have also been made in in the existing providers. Packaged documentation has been updated to reflect the new features.


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