Re: [Xen-users] Re: DomU on LVM

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> Nick Anderson wrote:
>   
> > Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > What would be the practical reason for that as opposed to
> > > allocating a bigger LV to contain all partitions?
> > >       
> > One reason I can think of is for snapshots of the data you want to 
> > snapshot. If I dont care whats in /var why waste time in backing it up. 
> > I might want to snapshot home more often than /. If its all on one big 
> > LV you cant get that fine grained snapshotting can you?
> >     
> Just to poke a little further, why take snapshots in dom0 instead
> of within domU?
>
> You could provide a second LV to each domU located on different spindles
> that provide snapshotting within the domUs.
>
> -Ross
>
> __
To avoid having to get nutso about decoding and mounting LVM tools in 
Dom0, and to use the superior disk I/O of Dom0 for doing the backups or 
duplication of its contents.
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