On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:44:49AM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > >> I suggest in the future you do not LVM root (/). Along with /boot (which > >> cannot be LVM'd) it is a good idea to avoid doing it on your root > >> partition for the reasons you've now learned. > > > >It depends. If you have root on LVM you can snapshot it and have nice > >backups. Granted, / should not be changing much at the hour you are > >doing the backups, but still... > > Isn't snapshot a function of the filesystem type and not LVM? Snapshot is a function of the block device. Some filesystems, such as XFS have a built-in freeze/dump capability which can simulate it pretty well. What LVM snapshot is able to do, is allow you to "freeze" a block device for online back-up while writing pending modifications to a separate block device this eliminating the down-time. florin -- If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061120/c188d7f0/attachment.pgp