The Linux kernel documentation of the snapshot DM target contains the answer to your first question:
The snapshot-merge and snapshot status lines end with:
<sectors_allocated>/<total_sectors> <metadata_sectors>
The first two numbers (0 and 4194304 in your case) define the start and the length of the mapping in 512-byte sectors, but this is not specific to the snapshot target (it isn't strictly status info, but more like table info). Read the other files in the device-mapper
documentation directory if you are interested.
The snapshot size ("cap") is determined by the size of the copy-on-write (COW) device given to the snapshot target. Check the target parameters via dmsetup table
. Their documentation is in the same file, in short:
snapshot <origin> <COW device> <persistent?> <chunksize>
What your CentOS 6.6 LiveCD uses as a COW device and how to influence it, I don't know.