From b88565f31b0a7874e62a1dc9e97b9c944c11e41f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andre Noll Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 13:42:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] LVM: Fix broken link to COW. The link broke when the section on the virtual address space was made a subsection. Just link to the containing section on processes instead. Use the opportunity to reformat the whole paragraph and add the missing at the end of the paragraph

. --- LVM.m4 | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/LVM.m4 b/LVM.m4 index b02556a..bf13076 100644 --- a/LVM.m4 +++ b/LVM.m4 @@ -410,14 +410,13 @@ one PV to different PVs in the same VG. SECTION(«LVM Snapshots») -

LVM snapshots are based on the CoW optimization -strategy described earlier in the chapter on Unix -Concepts. Creating a snapshot means to create a CoW table of -the given size. Just before a LE of a snapshotted LV is about to be -written to, its contents are copied to a free slot in the CoW -table. This preserves an old version of the LV, the snapshot, which -can later be reconstructed by overlaying the CoW table atop the LV. +

LVM snapshots are based on the CoW optimization strategy described +earlier in the chapter on Unix +Concepts. Creating a snapshot means to create a CoW table of the +given size. Just before a LE of a snapshotted LV is about to be written +to, its contents are copied to a free slot in the CoW table. This +preserves an old version of the LV, the snapshot, which can later be +reconstructed by overlaying the CoW table atop the LV.

Snapshots can be taken from a LV which contains a mounted file system, while applications are actively modifying files. Without coordination -- 2.39.2