LVM Snapshot merging? [SOLVED]

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri May 14 18:54:31 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know when LVM snapshot merging will be available in Fedora?
>
> I'm looking at making some significant upgrades/updates to my systems
> and the LVM snapshot feature would be really handy if merging was
> available.
>
> In lieu of having the merging capability, I had a crazy idea for a
> workaround. Does anyone know what would happen if I upgraded/updated
> my snapshot and then if I was happy with how it went, rsync'd the
> snapshot volume back to the origin volume?
>
> I would assume that there is a merging process in development for a
> reason. Could this result in some sort of infinite loop or race
> condition?

To answer my own question here. The required bits (kernel, lvm,
device-mapper) appear to be available between F13 and F13-testing.
Since I'll be reinstalling for F13 I decided to go ahead and install
the F13 packages in F12 to see what happened. Everything appears to be
working fine.

Richard


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