On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:44:00PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: > 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.
I'm not using LVM for this functionality. I want this on the block level, not the fs level. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
