[pve-devel] LVM no snapshots?

Michael Rasmussen mir at datanom.net
Tue Aug 6 19:48:10 CEST 2013


On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:39:48 +0200
Stefan Priebe <s.priebe at profihost.ag> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> with Disks on LVM the snapshot option in PVE is greyed out. Is this correct? I thought PVE supports Snapshots on top of LVM.
> 
Yes, no snapshots for LVM. Either the disk image format must support
snapshotting (qcow2) or the underlaying storage system must support it
(Nexenta, ceph, ZFS). Since LVM does not provide snapshots as well as
RAW disk image then snapshots on LVM is not supported.

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