Comment by m4rtink

6 years ago

XFS on LVM thin pool thin LV gives you fas CoW snapshots and is rock solid. Really, try it. :)

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phyzome  6 years ago

I don't remember the details, but when I looked into switching to LVM snapshots, I ran into some sort of blocker.

My use-case is that I run Sandstorm, and want to be able to back it up while it's running. That means:

  - Ensure there aren't any existing snapshots
  - Take a snapshot
  - Mount the snapshot as a filesystem
  - Run tarsnap against that filesystem
  - Release the snapshot

I think the trouble I ran into was at the mount step.