[linux-lvm] Using RAID-0 disks to snapshot backups

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Nov 4 04:28:01 UTC 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:19:03AM -0200, Claudio Cuqui wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Anybody have any idea about what could happen if, during a snapshot the 
> discs used by the snapshot logical volume fail ? What I expect is that 
> my snapshot will fail (nothing could be more fair than this ;-) , but is 
> there any chance of this corrupt the logical volume that was being 
> backuped during the disc failure ?

Yes, the sanpshot will get dropped (IOW: fail) and no corruption to the original
LV will occur.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Cuqui
> 
> 
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