On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 01:54:10PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > I was always under the impression that an LVM snapshot is not better > > > than an unclean filesystem, like for example after a power loss. But > > > this 20 year old document proved me wrong: > > > https://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html > > [email protected]: > > Is there any reference for that? AFAIK LVM doesn't "know" about the > > underlying file system (if there is any). > In a later mail: > > This sounds very hypothetical: how should LVM that there is a file > > system /at all/ on the logical volume being snapshotted? How that > > this file system is mounted? > > Obviously one can inquire the list of mounted filesystems and their > storage devices [...]
...then fsfreeze Woah, Thomas: you definitely rock :) Just what we all needed. Thank you (and for all your other insightful posts here!) Cheers -- t
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