-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-11-09 at 17:01 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I just read the below piece of advice which was new to me.
Ted Tso, the main ext4 developer is advising users to keep ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions on LVM volumes. That way a snapshot can be taken weekly and the filesystem snapshot checked.
I don't read it that way. From the excerpt you posted: ]> So these days, what I strongly recommend is that people use LVM ]> snapshots, and schedule weekly checks during some low usage period ]> (i.e., 3am on Saturdays), using something like the e2croncheck shell ]> script. I read that as meaning that, if you use LVM, make periodic snapshots of it (an lvm specific operation, I understand). Not that we should use LVM. Unless he has said more... but on that paragraph, I understand it differently. Perhaps you have links to the thread? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr4r7QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9USSgCdEhD3TAD1fvlNAtEabQM+TXrt 7EQAnApKFEGLffXCURFpftwSf7JdhUNy =e7Cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org