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* [linux-lvm] Does LVM always do 'dm suspend' when lvcreating a thin snapshot?
@ 2015-09-03 22:04 Mike McCracken
  2015-09-04 11:05 ` Zdenek Kabelac
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike McCracken @ 2015-09-03 22:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: linux-lvm

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 When creating a thin snapshot of a thin volume, does LVM always freeze the
FS?

I see when I run lvcreate with -vvv that it sends the 'dm suspend' message
to the origin lv, but on looking at the code I wasn't quite able to
convince myself that it will always do that, or under what circumstances it
won't.

Thanks,
-mike

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* Re: [linux-lvm] Does LVM always do 'dm suspend' when lvcreating a thin snapshot?
  2015-09-03 22:04 [linux-lvm] Does LVM always do 'dm suspend' when lvcreating a thin snapshot? Mike McCracken
@ 2015-09-04 11:05 ` Zdenek Kabelac
  2015-09-04 16:52   ` Mike McCracken
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zdenek Kabelac @ 2015-09-04 11:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: LVM general discussion and development

Dne 4.9.2015 v 00:04 Mike McCracken napsal(a):
> When creating a thin snapshot of a thin volume, does LVM always freeze the FS?
>
> I see when I run lvcreate with -vvv that it sends the 'dm suspend' message to
> the origin lv, but on looking at the code I wasn't quite able to convince
> myself that it will always do that, or under what circumstances it won't.
>

Hi

Yes - suspend of thin's snapshot origin is always enforced
as you normally want snapshot FS to be in consistent state.

Zdenek

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* Re: [linux-lvm] Does LVM always do 'dm suspend' when lvcreating a thin snapshot?
  2015-09-04 11:05 ` Zdenek Kabelac
@ 2015-09-04 16:52   ` Mike McCracken
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike McCracken @ 2015-09-04 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: LVM general discussion and development

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OK, thanks for confirming!
I'd like to help improve the documentation about this - did I miss a place
where it was mentioned explicitly? If not, where would a discussion of FS
suspending fit? I'm happy to contribute a patch.


On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> wrote:

> Dne 4.9.2015 v 00:04 Mike McCracken napsal(a):
>
>> When creating a thin snapshot of a thin volume, does LVM always freeze
>> the FS?
>>
>> I see when I run lvcreate with -vvv that it sends the 'dm suspend'
>> message to
>> the origin lv, but on looking at the code I wasn't quite able to convince
>> myself that it will always do that, or under what circumstances it won't.
>>
>>
> Hi
>
> Yes - suspend of thin's snapshot origin is always enforced
> as you normally want snapshot FS to be in consistent state.
>
> Zdenek
>
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>

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