[linux-lvm] Reading Cow table

Heinz Mauelshagen Mauelshagen at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 09:44:13 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:49:40AM -0800, sachin wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> Can any one tell  me is it possible to read the cow table & find out the =
> exact location of the data on the disk or partition . If yes give me any =
> clue to read the COW table and other data.

Not supported directly.

If you're up for some investigation, look at the on-disk format definitions
for COW in lvm.h and check into the *COW*() lib functions.

> 
> I am using a lvm 1.0.3  . Copy of the cow table should be consistant with
> the data on disk
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> SachiN_
> 
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