Messages in this thread | | | From | Blaisorblade <> | Subject | Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation) | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:03:01 +0200 |
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On Friday 23 September 2005 23:19, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device
> Checking the code, yes you're correct. > When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed. You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too?
IIRC I checked the code and it looks up the first param as a DM device, even because the list of snapshot is maintained for DM devices, not for general block devices.
Right? > Alasdair
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