From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:11:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzm61jve.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509211704.15364.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (blaisorblade@yahoo.it's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:04:14 +0200")
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it spake:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 00:13, Nix wrote:
>> On 20 Sep 2005, Paolo Giarrusso docced:
>> > +When you create a LVM* snapshot of a volume, four dm devices are used:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > +* I've verified this with LVM 2.01.09, however I assume this is the LVM2
>> > way + of doing this.
>
>> Yes; LVM1 doesn't use device-mapper at all, so these docs don't apply to
>> it.
> I really meant "I assume that all LVM2 releases work this way".
As far as I know they do, modulo bugs, although if you go back far enough
device-mapper doesn't have support for snapshots at all.
--
`One cannot, after all, be expected to read every single word
of a book whose author one wishes to insult.' --- Richard Dawkins
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-21 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-20 18:45 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 18:45 ` [PATCH 2/7] i386: little pgtable.h consolidation vs 2/3level Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 18:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] fix locking comment in unmap_region() Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 18:45 ` [PATCH 4/7] README update from the stone age Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 23:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-20 18:45 ` [PATCH 5/7] Clearify comment in swapfile.c Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 18:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] update stale comment for removal of page->list Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 18:46 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2005-09-20 22:13 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation Nix
2005-09-21 15:04 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-21 16:11 ` Nix [this message]
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