And LVM snapshots aren't exactly the most reliable way to do a filesystem backup either, in terms of filesystem consistency, data consistency or reliability of

And LVM snapshots aren't exactly the most reliable way to do a filesystem backup either, in terms of filesystem consistency, data consistency or reliability of the snapshot itself. And even kernel locking bugs when creating and destroying them, plus udev races when it fires off events when changes occur. I stopped using them years ago due to the sheer numver of problems. Have gitlab considered something like ZFS snapshots? They don't have the consistency problems or the space wasting and reliability problems that LVM brings. You could have it take snapshots every few minutes.