[dm-devel] Re: LVM on dmraid breakage
Luca Berra
bluca at comedia.it
Fri Aug 10 05:09:07 UTC 2007
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:27:34PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>>But I don't yet see why it didn't also open the other devices, write a
>>warning
>>message about duplicate IDs, and do the right thing and give them
>>precedence.
>
>Why would it open the other devices? LVM does not scan /dev/mapper/*,
>only /dev/sd*. Since it does not scan the /dev/mapper devices for pvs,
>it sees no duplicates and can not "do the right thing".
LVM scans the whole /dev directory, unless you configure it otherwise.
L.
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