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 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/