Re: block device snapshot capability

["Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@Sistina.com>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:40:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> In article <20010411142654.A23996@w-lahr.des.sequent.com> you wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of ongoing development to provide the capability 
> > to take a snapshot of a block device?
> 
> It's part of Linux-LVM since version 0.8 and thus part of Linux 2.4.

You need to get the recent LVM 0.9.1 Beta 7 software *and* to patch your
kernel as well, because that'll fix some snapshot related flaws.

> 
> 	Christoph
> 
> -- 
> Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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