Bart Schaefer wrote: >> Also, your work flow is broken if your historic snapshots are now >> production while the real physical LV isnt.( imho ) > > Seems to me that's exactly the situation he's trying to avoid. He > wants to restore the real LV to the state it was in at the time one of > the snapshots was taken. Which in other contexts is exactly the > reason one makes a snapshot. Thats not what the whole point is. The point of doing snapshots is to expose TO your backup process a consistent filesystem while reducing the production downtime ( for people who use snapshots as a back transport ). The Snapshot isnt meant to be the backup. Anyway, if you are looking to discuss the in's and out's of lvm and how it does what it does, there is a linux-lvm list, you might want to go ask there. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq