Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation | From | Nix <> | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:11:17 +0100 |
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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.
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