Re: LVM snapshots

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matt Clark" <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net>
Cc: Ragnar KjÃzrstad <postgres(at)ragnark(dot)vestdata(dot)no>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Murthy Kambhampaty" <murthy(dot)kambhampaty(at)goeci(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LVM snapshots
Date: 2003-03-17 14:32:19
Message-ID: 5944.1047911539@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Matt Clark" <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net> writes:
> So when you take a snapshot there is no data to be copied, and when
> you release a snapshot some data needs to be written back.

Does the write-back preserve the original write ordering? In general,
what happens if there's a system crash in this state? What of errors
encountered during write-back, eg out of disk space (or is disk space
accounting still done in terms of the original volume)?

regards, tom lane

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