[DRBD-user] A Summary of LVM snapshots with DRBD

Andreas Semt as at computer-leipzig.de
Thu Apr 8 13:18:53 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
>
> There are file systems that have their own suspend and resume
> hooks. One of them is XFS, which will only work with DRBD 0.7+
> If you happen to use some of these, you can always do a clean
> snapshot by suspending the active (mounted) file system,
> creating the snapshot, and tell the fs to resume again.
> 
> Eventually we will built in into the user space tools or into the
> module, or both, some hooks to guarantee a clean snapshot.
> This does not seem to be that difficult, but it will take some
> time to do it right, and somebody just has to do it :)
> 

That would be a big step forward for drbd, imho. The ability to make 
consistent and clean snapshots in a HA environment seems to be a 
important feature for some people ;-)


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Best regards,
Andreas Semt



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