On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know when LVM snapshot merging will be available in Fedora? > > I'm looking at making some significant upgrades/updates to my systems > and the LVM snapshot feature would be really handy if merging was > available. > > In lieu of having the merging capability, I had a crazy idea for a > workaround. Does anyone know what would happen if I upgraded/updated > my snapshot and then if I was happy with how it went, rsync'd the > snapshot volume back to the origin volume? > > I would assume that there is a merging process in development for a > reason. Could this result in some sort of infinite loop or race > condition? To answer my own question here. The required bits (kernel, lvm, device-mapper) appear to be available between F13 and F13-testing. Since I'll be reinstalling for F13 I decided to go ahead and install the F13 packages in F12 to see what happened. Everything appears to be working fine. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
