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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to force a snapshot status to valid when I
	know	very well it's valid?
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:13:11 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:54:21PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> took about 30 minutes. I don't know why or what happened there. But it

Big snapshots take a long time to load - the whole cow area has to be
scanned to generate the list of blocks represented on it.

(Large thin snapshots don't have this shortcoming.)

Alasdair