On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:15 -0600, Barry Roberts wrote: > Any lvm users/experts here? Redhat's search on the linux-lvm list is > broken and I've asked this question on the list and got exactly 0 > responses. So here goes. > > > I want to take a snapshot of a filesystem (~300 GB), let testers make > changes, then throw away all those changes and revert to the state of > the original snapshot. Basically, I want to throw away all the > changes written to the COW, not apply them back to the original > filesystem. > > > Anybody know if that's possible, or how to do it?
Looks like there's now support for writing to snapshots. (Although it's still apparently a little experimental.) Would it work to have your testers use the snapshot instead of the original? -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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