Bug 1398865

Summary:	LVM docs incorrectly mention snapshot tagging as not possible.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	John Pittman <jpittman>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	RHEL DPM <rhel-docs>
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Version:	5.11	CC:	slevine
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Description John Pittman 2016-11-26 19:27:41 UTC

Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/lvm_tags.html

Section Number and Name: 

Appendix C. LVM Object Tags

Describe the issue: 

"Only objects in a volume group can be tagged. Physical volumes lose their tags if they are removed from a volume group; this is because tags are stored as part of the volume group metadata and that is deleted when a physical volume is removed. Snapshots cannot be tagged."

Per https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2012-April/msg00032.html this works and is supported.

Suggestions for improvement: 

Remove the last sentence from the mentioned paragraph.

Comment 2 Steven J. Levine 2016-11-30 14:20:10 UTC

The RHEL 5 version of this document on the Portal no longer says that tagging is not supported for snapshots.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/lvm_tags.html