[pve-devel] PVE and Snapshot

[Timofey Titovets]

2017-04-05 16:45 GMT+03:00 Caspar Smit <casparsmit at supernas.eu>:
> 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
>

Sorry, i don't use LVM somewhere i only remember what LVM with qemu can do that.
By this doc: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_LVM_Thin
Only LVM thin can do that.
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Have a nice day,
Timofey.