[linux-lvm] Snapshot sizes

AJ Lewis lewis at sistina.com
Thu Aug 30 12:23:56 UTC 2001


On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:19:10PM -0700, Gashaw Teshome wrote:
> I  think so.  So, if I create a LV of (let's say) 100M, take a snapshot and 
> then do my backup, as long as no changes have occured in excess of that 100M
> I'll be fine.  The total size of the files on the original LV doesn't matter
> as long as I allocate enough space for the snapshot LV.
>
> Do I have it right?

Yep.  Seems like it.

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