Re: [dm-devel] snapshot driver...

[christophe varoqui <christophe varoqui free fr>]

On mar, 2004-07-13 at 14:09, Manu Tayal wrote:
> Hi,
> I am supposed to be writing a snapshot driver which can be used to take a
> snapshot of any volume on the Linux box irrespective of whether the volume is
> a part of EVMS or LVM. The device mapper module has the snapshot code with
> it. Can somebody advise me whether it will be a good idea to use that
> snap-shot code and convert it into an independent driver?
> 
the current device mapper snapshot target already does what you want.
You seem to describe a lightweight userland parser (evms & lvm[2]
metadata) tool to drive that target.

regards,
cvaroqui