FC2-t1 exhibits long delay on LVM setup

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 19:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2004, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > ...a patch to use 2.6's /sys/block pseudo-filesystem to filter which
> > block devices are worth probing for physical volumes.  This should
> > improve things no end.
> 
> Was this it?
> 
> * Thu Feb 19 2004 Stephen C. Tweedie <sct at redhat.com> 2.00.08-4
> 
> - Add sysfs filter patch
> - Allow non-root users to build RPM

Yep.  Took me a bit longer to do the testing than I'd planned, as I've
found a quagmire of unrelated problems getting root-on-LVM working
properly with dynamic majors and SELinux.  But it's in rawhide now.

> This failure mode is particularly bad when your root fs is in such an
> LVM device, and you just rebuilt all of your initrd images with the
> new, ``fixed´´ lvm binary and without lvm.conf.  But even if I run it
> after booting from a working-lvm.conf initrd, if I run vgscan on the
> running system without lvm.conf, it fails just the same (and it
> scarily fails to complete)
> 
> Want me to bugzilla this?

Yes, please.

--Stephen