If you *intend* to rollback, have you considered doing the test in the snapshot itself (which can be written to) and not bothering with a later merge? But for any unpredictable problems with devices, first thing to rule out is unintended interference from udev. Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/