[linux-lvm] pvscan and vgscan

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:16:07AM -0700, Rich Turner wrote:
> how does pvscan and vgscan know what devices to scan to search for pv's
> and vg's? is there a file that it uses to determine which disks to open?
> it does not appear to try to open all devices when their respective
> modules have not been loaded yet.

LVM1 has the tradeoff that all supported devices are hard-coded which we
changed in LVM2 to be configurable (using regular expressions).

> 
> my situation is that i have volume groups on multiple scsi devices but
> the scsi modules are not being loaded before vgscan is being run in the
> rc.sysinit. i realize that this is a problem inherent with the
> rc.sysinit and can be fixed within it. but, my question is how does
> vgscan scan all devices without opening them? normally when a device is
> opened all of the modules are automatically loaded, hence vgscan will
> find them.

It does open them. You likely have a kmod misconfiguration preventing
module load if it fails to.
> 
> using lvm 1.0.3
> 
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