[linux-lvm] pvscan takes 45-90 minutes booting off ISO with thin pools

[Patrick Mitchell]

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Patrick Mitchell
<patricklmitchell9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Changing the ISO's lvm.conf, setting "activation = 0" in global makes
> it boot very quickly.  I can then manually run a single "pvscan
> --cache --activate ay" to activat everything, and it just takes a few
> seconds.  So, I'm thinking this has to be a locking problem with
> trying to activate so many logical volumes and thin pools
> simultaneously.

(Manually running pvscan after modifying lvm.conf to set activation back to 1.)