Booting with LVM2 is much too slow

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 12:00, Neal Becker wrote:

> On Monday 22 March 2004 11:04 pm, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 19:47 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > Now that I'm testing with lvm2, there is one thing that must be fixed
> > > before release.  During boot, it says, "activating logical volumes", or
> > > something like that (not logged to dmesg), and then ***sits there for a
> > > good 5 minutes with no user feedback that it is even alive***.
> >
> > This should be *much* better with lvm2-2.00.08-5 -- if it's still taking
> > that long even with that, I'd be interested to know it.


> YES! I just tried it - it went by so fast I couldn't even time it.

Excellent.  The new lvm2 code includes code to scan the sysfs filesystem
under /sys/block to avoid trying to look at any device nodes that don't
have drivers loaded.  Nice to hear that it's working for you!

Cheers,
 Stephen