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Add a note to snapshot.txt that the origin target must be suspended when
loading or unloading the snapshot target.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Expand Up @@ -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
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>

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