[linux-lvm] root filesystem snapshots

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Tue Jan 4 22:32:47 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:19:51PM -0800, rich turner wrote:
> in the past i have read a number of posts related to problems with doing
> snapshots of logical volumes that contain the root filesystem. 

Simply not supported yet.

Some changes in WHATS_NEW move towards supporting it - in particular 
a kernel with headers supporting the O_NOATIME change in 2.00.23 is a
pre-requisite.

Alasdair
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