2015-03-19 20:06 GMT+01:00 Stuart Gathman <stuart@gathman.org>: > > I've had the same problem on Fedora - so it is not ubuntu specific. On > Fedora, systemd has a timeout for VG activation. That can be increased. > However, you can flag the snapshot to *not* be activated automatically (Skip > activation: -k) at volume group activation. That allows the system to boot > (remote reboot), and then you can manually activate the big snapshot (or > automatically in a later script) - waiting the requisite 5 or 10 minutes. > Thank you very much! It seems to be a nice workaround. Although, I can't live with it as Utopic has old LVM version which doesn't have this feature. (Though Vivid will have it.) Anyway, is it a wild idea to prioritize the activation of the root device in initrd? _______________________________________________ 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/