Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 16:21:15 EST


On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device

Checking the code, yes you're correct.
When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's been fixed.

Alasdair
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