William Thompson wrote: > I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. > > Is there a tool somewhere that will allow me to merge a snapshot into the > parent device? > > For instance, if I have a snapshot of /dev/sdb like this: > sdb-snap1: 0 16777216 snapshot /dev/sdb /dev/sdb-snap1-backing P 8 > sdb-snap2: 0 16777216 snapshot /dev/sdb-snap1 /dev/sdb-snap2-backing P 8 > ... > > Lets say that I want to update sdb with the data in /dev/sdb-snap1-backing. > What would I do to do this? Is there some tool that does this? I > understand that there can be problems with snapshots of snapshots like this, > but that is not the question. > > As far as I know, LVM does not provide this function. ZFS can promote it's snapshoot.
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