storage considerations

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Wed Feb 4 23:08:41 PST 2009


> > 2.) loop mounting an image (dm-loop)
> >
> > 	- quota works
> >
> > 	- works on any filesystem (even NFS)
> >
> > 	- don't know how to make snapshots?
> >
> Perhaps we can use the future union mount or unionfs in order to make
> incremental snapshot ?

Or maybe it is possible to make an LVM snapshot of a dm-loop device? (I
already
asked that on the Linux-lvm mailing list but got no answer).

- Dietmar



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