Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

John Holland <jholland@vin-dit.org> writes:

> Zfsonlinux.org has info on using ZFS with debian. I create vm images
> and snapshot them and clone the snapshots all the time. The clones are
> writable and only use as much space as corresponds to the difference
> from the source. The volumes have to be ZVOL s, not regular files. I
> have found this very reliable.

It appears to be entirely unclear what the compatibility of ZFS with
Debian is.  There seem to be some Debian packages available --- are they
compatible with kernels from backports, like 3.16?

I'd rather use a file system which comes along with the kernel by
default.


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