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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and QCOW problems



On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:28 AM, J Nb <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's easier to use LVM. Be careful when using LVM snapshot
>> though,
>> make ABSOLUTELY sure you don't run out of space on the
>> snapshot.
>>
>
> You mean the snapshot volume should have enough size.. for heavily running VM 
> ( i.e. when a large number of blocks are getting written.. while the snapshot 
> is being copied.). Right ?

Yes.

Last time I play around with LVM snapshot, one of the snapshot got
100% full, and I ended up losing data :P Good thing this was on dev
server. Nowadays I use LVM snapshot only for backup purposes, and
delete them afterwards.

-- 
Fajar

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