[CentOS] lvm snapshot

Wed Dec 2 20:37:07 UTC 2015
Axel Glienke <axel at glienke.cc>

Ok, kernel needs the module dm-snapshot for snapshot support, but the  
modules is storage on a snapshoted-lv ...

you can't make a root_snapshot with centos?


Zitat von Axel Glienke <axel at glienke.cc>:

> in journalctl i found:
> modprobe: FATAL: Module dm-snapshot not found
> ...
> Can't process LV root_snap: snapshot target support missing from kernel
>
>
> Zitat von Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org>:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:53:39PM +0100, Axel Glienke wrote:
>>> Creating snapshot:
>>>
>>> [root at lvmtest ~]# lvcreate -L5G -s -n root_snap /dev/centos/root
>>>  Reducing COW size 5,00 GiB down to maximum usable size 2,94 GiB.
>>>  Logical volume "root_snap" created.
>>> [root at lvmtest ~]# lvs
>>>  LV        VG     Attr       LSize Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move
>>> Log Cpy%Sync Convert
>>>  root      centos owi-aos--- 2,93g
>>>  root_snap centos swi-a-s--- 2,94g      root   0,00
>>>  swap      centos -wi-ao---- 1,00g
>>>
>>> --- reboot ---
>>>
>>> dracut shell (missing /dev/centos/root)
>>>
>>> cat proc/cmdline:
>>> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64
>>> root=/dev/mapper/centos_root ro rd.lvm.lv=centos/root
>>> rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>>> systemd.debug
>>
>> shouldn't you have a new grub entry with:
>> root=/dev/mapper/root_snap rd.lvm.lv=centos/root_snap
>>
>> Tru
>>
>> --
>> Tru Huynh
>> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
>
>
>
> Grüße
>
> Axel
>
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Grüße

Axel