From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (dhcp-100-19-150.bos.redhat.com [10.16.19.150]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9KKtUVU014067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:55:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:55:30 -0400 From: Mike Snitzer Message-ID: <20101020205530.GC31510@redhat.com> References: <4CBF4B79.9080008@cfl.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CBF4B79.9080008@cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Snapshot merge in the background? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Wed, Oct 20 2010 at 4:05pm -0400, Phillip Susi 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