From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshot merge in the background?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:55:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020205530.GC31510@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBF4B79.9080008@cfl.rr.com>
On Wed, Oct 20 2010 at 4:05pm -0400,
Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Last night I tested out the new snapshot merge feature by taking a
> snapshot, running a dist-upgrade, then lvconvert --merge. After
> rebooting, it merged the snapshot back into the origin, but it waited
> for the merge to complete before finishing the boot.
"Before finishing the boot"... can you be more specific? Where was it
stopped waiting for a snapshot merge? How did you know it was waiting
for snapshot merge? Which distro are you using?
> Can't the merge be completed in the background while the volume is
> mounted and the boot continues?
Yes that is how it _should_ work.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 20:05 [linux-lvm] Snapshot merge in the background? Phillip Susi
2010-10-20 20:55 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-10-20 21:08 ` Phillip Susi
2010-10-22 0:32 ` Phillip Susi
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