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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:29:04 +0200
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2002  13:45 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Shawn wrote:
> > > In this case, can you use a RAID mirror or something, then break it?
> > > 
> > > Also, there's the LVM snapshot at the block layer someone already
> > > mentioned, which when used with smaller partions is less overhead.
> > > (less FS delta)
> > 
> > All these "solutions" don't work out, I cannot remount R/O my partition,
> > and LVM low-level snapshots or breaking a RAID mirror simply won't work
> > out. I would have to remount r/o the partition to get a consistent image
> > in the first place, so the first step must fail already...
> 
> Have you been reading my emails at all?  LVM snapshots DO ensure that
> the snapshot filesystem is consistent for journaled filesystems.

Please apologize, I have been busy and only reading partial threads, and had
not come across your LVM-snapshot related mails when I wrote the
previous mail.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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