Currently the first field of the attribute bits are set to 's' for a snapshot and 'S' for a merging snap. Unfortunatly 'S' was used for an invalid snapshot and lvs still uses it both ways. LVM version: 2.02.86(2) (2011-07-08) Library version: 1.02.65 (2011-07-08) Driver version: 4.20.0