How do you do the snapshot?
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lustre-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Braid > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:37 PM > To: Jakob Goldbach > Cc: Lustre User Discussion Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] e2scan for backup > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Jakob Goldbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Does e2scan require that I take down the MDT before scanning or could I > > do this on top of a LVM snapshot ? > > You don't need to stop the MDS. We just take a snapshot of the MDS > device and run e2scan against the snapshot. > > > I can't find references to e2scan it in the manual - is it considered > > experimental? > > It seems to work well enough but I don't think it's really documented > anywhere. There's a few bugs in bugzilla that have some useful > information in them. > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
