How does LVM handle open files, say like open SQL database files, that could be in the middle of a transaction ?
A -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Waugh Sent: Friday, 3 May 2002 11:56 AM To: slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] Power supply failure <quote who="Mark Pearson"> > I have never heard of a PS causing that much damage and was wondering if > anyone on the list knows of any similar horror stories.I now don't feel > quite so confidant about the weekly backups of my RAID system. Why not? If you have backups, it doesn't matter what happens to the RAID system. :-) One trick you can use to take more reliable backups is snapshotting the filesystem. You can do this with RAID by taking a mirror offline and backing it up, or with more advanced methods such as LVM - it can do this very neatly, and without a lot of hassle. - Jeff -- "It is said that there are only six jokes in the world, and I can assure you that we can only broadcast three of them..." - John Watt, the BBC's Head of Variety in the 30's -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
