On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Joe Julian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@julianfamily.org" target="_blank">joe@julianfamily.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 01/23/2013 01:34 AM, Shishir Gowda wrote:<br>
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One of the possible scenarios is someone taking a lvm snap of the backend.<br>
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As an aside, lvm snapshots are good for one-off temporary saves, but are completely useless as an interval snapshot. Each one takes up a ton of ram and increase boot-up times very significantly. I would recommend focusing on btrfs for any snapshotting backend.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Main reason to introduce coordinated snapshotting via gluster is for backups. I would remove the snapshot after backup completes. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Anand Babu Periasamy<br>
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