Re: [Xen-devel] consistent LVM snapshot of domUs from dom0

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I've started checking code into Xenbits.  Right now all that's there is the 
proof-of-concept control tools work and a stub driver in the guest kernel 
which is able to listen for commands.

The actual mechanics of FS snapshotting need to be implemented, plus UI 
features (such as actually taking arguments - and more importantly only 
returning from xm fsfreeze when guest says the freeze is actually 
complete)...

If you want to have a crack at plumbing this together you'd be more than 
welcome, or I can have a go at it, or we can split it.  Any preference?  I'll 
get paid for any work I do, so I'm happy to do any amount ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

On Friday 04 January 2008, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> is there some progress regarding this subject? Still, if there is
> something I could help with, please do not hesitate to tell me what could
> I do...
> Cheers
> Nik
>
> > Yes, I think that's a sensible first step to take.  Later on, we could
> > perhaps look into putting some more smarts in, e.g. doing the snapshot
> > creation automatically in the case that an LVM volume or QCow virtual
> > disk is already being used.
> >
> > I hadn't come across freeze/thaw_bdev before - I'd found a lock / unlock
> > call for filesystem locking somewhere that looked promising but not
> > implemented it yet.  I imagine it might boil down to a similar thing in
> > the end.
> >
> > Either way, being able to freeze specific block devices could be useful
> > for backup purposes.  There's no point freezing filesystems that are not
> > used to store backed-up data, for instance!
> >
> >> Yup, agree :)
> >> Cheers!
> >
> > OK, I'll try and get some code online at some point and let you know when
> > it's available.



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