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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2015-12-02 12:32:49 -0500
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2018-01-17 09:16:06 -0500
commit424da29c5a85adfcc1eda9412516efd77355d469 (patch)
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parentf6e7baadd96bd746d3fb584959d3f152189d05e1 (diff)
downloadlinux-424da29c5a85adfcc1eda9412516efd77355d469.tar.bz2
dm snapshot: improve documentation relative to origin suspend requirements
Add a note to snapshot.txt that the origin target must be suspended when loading or unloading the snapshot target. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ The difference between persistent and transient is with transient
snapshots less metadata must be saved on disk - they can be kept in
memory by the kernel.
+When loading or unloading the snapshot target, the corresponding
+snapshot-origin or snapshot-merge target must be suspended. A failure to
+suspend the origin target could result in data corruption.
+
* snapshot-merge <origin> <COW device> <persistent> <chunksize>