[linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Thu May 1 20:03:41 UTC 2008


>>> It's like yesterday's newspaper.  Why do you need to keep it?

>> A wild guess... because the changes haven't been synced back with the 
>> original yet (which happens when the snapshot is released)?

> My understanding is that the snapshot is a copy-on-write (COW) to the 
> original volume.  If that is not the case, then I guess things must have 
> changed and I have some old information.

You could be right... like I said, I'm not totally understanding how it 
all works yet...

It would be nice if someone who knows could clear this up...

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Best regards,

Charles




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