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 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel