Disk cloning

[Tino Schwarze]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Ryan Bair wrote:

> Are your active volumes on LVM? If so an LVM snapshot will make this
> much easier. (Didn't see this mentioned yet, but it is a huge thread)

An LVM snapshot is probably only slightly better than dd. It won't give
you a consistent database storage either. It might do a sync on the file
systems but I'm not sure.

Tino.

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