RE: [Xen-devel] Question about OCFS1/2

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So I can create and mount a snapshot on the host OS of a LVM partition
> that is being mounted RW by the guest OS (naturalyl the guest sees
> them as /dev/hda* to minimize my confusion)?  Theres no data integrity
> issues there?

That should work fine, and is a good way of doing backups. Not sure I'd
want to mount it though -- better to use dump or such like.

Ian
 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:37:33 -0000, Ian Pratt 
> <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just curious, what version of LVM are you using where 
> snapshots are,
> > > uhm, reliable :-).
> > 
> > LVM snapshots work OK providing you a) use them as 
> read-only backups,
> > and b) make sure you allocate them enough disk space such 
> that there's
> > no danger of the snapshot filling.
> > 
> > I wouldn't recommend using them to do CoW guest file 
> systems, at least
> > in a production environemnt.
> > 
> > Ian
> >
> 
> 
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