FC2-t1 exhibits long delay on LVM setup

Paul Iadonisi pri.rhl1 at iadonisi.to
Fri Feb 13 21:27:35 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:23, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

[snip]

> > Is anyone else seeing odd LVM behaviour?
> 
> lvm vgscan scans pretty much every block device it can get its hands
> on.  You may filter out stuff that doesn't matter for you using a
> filter directive in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.  Here's what I use for a
> machine whose physical volumes are *all* raid devices:
> 
> devices {
>     filter = [ "a|/dev/md.*|", "r|.*|" ]
> }

  Forgive my bluntness, but this seems to be a bit of a hack to me.  Why
has lvm2 taken this step backwards from lvm1?  There's gotta be a better
way.  Or at least a faster way.

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