On 10/20/2010 4:55 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > "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? It seemed to be stopped waiting for the initial activation of the root lv before continuing with the boot. This manifested as a several minute delay before the gui came up, and when I checked the bootchart image, it was indeed sitting running lvm for a long time before everything else. This is with Ubuntu 10.10. _______________________________________________ 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/