[pve-devel] LVM no snapshots?

[Stefan Priebe]

Am 06.08.2013 19:48, schrieb Michael Rasmussen:
> 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.

Thanks, i just started to setup a small proxmox home server where i 
don't have any storage server just disks in my systems and thought i 
could use snapshots with lvm.

Stefan