[pve-devel] PVE and Snapshot

[Caspar Smit]

2017-04-05 15:27 GMT+02:00 Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag at gmail.com>:

> 2017-04-05 16:06 GMT+03:00 Gilberto Nunes <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com>:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > Why Proxmox still not enable snapshot with RAW devices??
> > Is there a technical issue?? What the matter???
> > I just wanna understand....
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
> For doing snapshots proxmox use qemu functionality, qemu can't do
> snapshot on raw devices/files if under line RAW storage
> (SSD/HDD/MDRAID) can't do it.
> if you use raw with LVM, ZFS, Ceph RBD & etc, you will have a
> possibility to do snapshots.
>
>
Are you sure for raw LVM too? To my knowledge the snapshot functionality is
greyed out when using LVM raw.
Maybe LVM thin only? Or filesystem on LVM and using qcow2 images.

Kind regards,
Caspar



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