Re: [dm-devel] Newbie question: snapshot size - auto-expand?

[Joe Thornber <thornber sistina com>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:18:26AM -0800, Chia Chao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It appears that snapshots will become invalid if they need more space than
> allocated. I think snapshots can be expanded expilcitly (e.g. by a daemon),
> but I wonder if there is any way to create snapshots that will expand (the
> allocation) automatically?

Where would this space come from ?  Remember dm knows nothing about
LVM/EVMS metadata.

- Joe