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Re: [Xen-users] cloning guests between Dom0's ?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is this correct ? I know the LVM snapshot will give you a "point in time"
> image, but won't the DomU have unwritten changes in it's cache - giving you
> a very unclean filesystem ?

Changes in cache - yes.
Unclean - yes.
Unusable - No. Well, depends on what fs you use, actually :)

it will be no worse than a server power failure: If you use ext3 (or
any other journaling filesystem that can withstand power failure),
then  it should be able to replay filesystem journal automatically on
mounting to give you a usable filesystem.

Regards,

Fajar

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