Commit 424da29c authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Mike Snitzer

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: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent f6e7baad
...@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ The difference between persistent and transient is with transient ...@@ -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 snapshots less metadata must be saved on disk - they can be kept in
memory by the kernel. 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> * snapshot-merge <origin> <COW device> <persistent> <chunksize>
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