[linux-lvm] Hardware snapshots and LVM2?

[Nathan Scott]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:53:16PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 3/21/06, fredrik.backman at nll.se <fredrik.backman at nll.se> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Im doing a snapshot (hardware-based in EVA5000) of a LV
> > (lvm2) and i
> > wonder what is the correct way to use this snapshot?
> > Problem is that
> > this snapshot has the same ID as the original one. In HP-UX
> > a would do a
> > vgchgid on this snapshot-LV. Any help would be aprreciated.
> >
> > Regards Fredrik
> 
> I think that is filesystem dependent.
> 
> If you happen to be using XFS I believe they have a mount option like
> "-o nouuid".

If its XFS, you can either do that or change the UUID via xfs_admin(8).

> Do a man mount.xfs to double check.

Its mount(8), all the filesystems are documented together in one place.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan