To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation
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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:11:17 +0100
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it spake:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 00:13, Nix wrote:
>> On 20 Sep 2005, Paolo Giarrusso docced:
>> > +When you create a LVM* snapshot of a volume, four dm devices are used:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > +* I've verified this with LVM 2.01.09, however I assume this is the LVM2
>> > way +  of doing this.
> 
>> Yes; LVM1 doesn't use device-mapper at all, so these docs don't apply to
>> it.
> I really meant "I assume that all LVM2 releases work this way".

As far as I know they do, modulo bugs, although if you go back far enough
device-mapper doesn't have support for snapshots at all.

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