[Lustre-discuss] e2scan for backup

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:50 -0600, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> How do you do the snapshot?

lvcreate -s

But based on the premise that your underlying Lustre block device is
already an LVM logical volume.

Using LVM for Lustre devices solves a number of backup problems that
usually require one to stop Lustre and unmount the device to otherwise
solve.

b.