Re: LVM snapshots

From: "David F(dot) Skoll" <dfs(at)roaringpenguin(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LVM snapshots
Date: 2003-03-14 15:51:47
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.53.0303141050260.2262@shishi.roaringpenguin.com
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Matt Clark wrote:

> Has anyone tried taking an LVM snapshot of a running DB?

I don't think there's a guarantee that a snapshot of the file system
corresponds to a consistent database, even if the snapshot corresponds
to a single point-in-time.

--
David.

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