[linux-lvm] pvscan takes a lot of time
Chris Croswhite
csc at cadence.com
Wed Apr 21 18:28:08 UTC 2004
Is your system scanning dummy nodes like nbd* or something? What does
the log file look like?
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 11:17, Tomas wrote:
> Hi all LVM:ers... (Hmm .. almost sound like lamers ;-) )
>
> I have upgraded a Mandrake 9.2 system to Mandrake 10.0 Community. The
> lvm1 volumes was imported correctly. When I had the volumes imported and
> ready I converted them into lvm2
>
> Now pvscan takes a lot of time. I can't remember if it took a long time
> to pvscan before I converted the volumes. At least I know for sure pvscan
> ran quite fast on MDK 9.2
>
> Still pvscan takes a long time to complete +1 minute and on my other
> systems running lvm1 or lvm2 it takes seconds. Have I done something
> wrong?
> The /dev/md10 and /dev/md20 are soft mirrors.
>
> Also the summary of GB seem to be wrong.
>
> Output from pvscan -v below
>
> Yes I know. I like partitions or at least liked them. ;-)
> I will rebuild this to fewer partitions in the future I am in progress of
> doing that for the moment.
>
> pvscan -v
> Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
> Wiping internal cache
> Walking through all physical volumes
>
> ->>> Here it takes a LOT of time
>
> PV /dev/md10 VG mirr_vg01 lvm2 [18,97 GB / 1,84 GB free]
> PV /dev/md20 VG mirr_vg01 lvm2 [24,00 GB / 4,19 GB free]
> PV /dev/hda5 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [29,25 GB / 0 free]
> PV /dev/hdc5 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [8,50 GB / 2,41 GB free]
> PV /dev/hda6 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [8,06 GB / 0 free]
> PV /dev/hdc7 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [3,44 GB / 0 free]
> PV /dev/hdb2 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [24,00 GB / 0 free]
> PV /dev/hdd7 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [7,97 GB / 4,81 GB free]
> PV /dev/hdd8 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [7,97 GB / 1,19 GB free]
> PV /dev/hdd9 VG work_vg01 lvm2 [1,22 GB / 0 free]
> PV /dev/hda2 VG burn_vg01 lvm2 [29,30 GB / 96,00 MB free]
> PV /dev/hdc2 lvm2 [24,03 GB]
> PV /dev/hda3 lvm2 [29,30 GB]
> PV /dev/hdc6 lvm2 [8,55 GB]
> PV /dev/hdd2 lvm2 [2,49 GB]
> PV /dev/hdb3 lvm2 [24,03 GB]
> PV /dev/hdd3 lvm2 [2,49 GB]
> PV /dev/hdb4 lvm2 [42,93 GB]
> PV /dev/hdd5 lvm2 [8,00 GB]
> PV /dev/hdd6 lvm2 [8,00 GB]
> Total: 20 [164,36 GB] / in use: 11 [14,53 GB] / in no VG: 9 [149,83 GB]
>
> Best regards
> /Tomas
>
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