LVM snapshot does not get deleted after merging the snapshot on LVs that could not be unmounted and system needs to be rebooted for the snapshot to get merge.

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Issue

  • LVM snapshot does not get deleted after merging the snapshot on LVs that could not be mounted and system needs to be rebooted for the snapshot to get merge.
    For example /var LV. We need to restart lvm2-monitor.service service to remove the snapshot. Merging is ok though.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • lvm2-2.02.130-5.el7.x86_64

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