Bug 463005 - LVM Snapshot Merging?????
Summary: LVM Snapshot Merging?????
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lvm2
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Mikuláš Patočka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-20 13:15 UTC by Leif Bergman
Modified: 2013-01-09 11:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-28 15:01:18 UTC
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Description Leif Bergman 2008-09-20 13:15:05 UTC 
Description of problem:
This is a feature request...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
l2.02.39-3

How reproducible:
No -M flag for lvconvert. That is - no support for mergeback of snapshots.

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Additional info:
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/LVM_Snapshot_Merging
Comment 1 Milan Broz 2008-09-21 08:49:11 UTC 
The kernel support is not in upstream kernel yet.

I hope we will merge this merging patches soon:-)
Comment 2 Avi Kivity 2009-06-18 15:45:28 UTC 
When is this expected to be merged to mainline?
Comment 3 Mikuláš Patočka 2010-04-28 15:01:18 UTC 
Mergeable snapshots is in upstream now. It will be supported by distributions when the pick new kernel and lvm2 packages.
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