On Fri, Mar 08 '02 at 13:35, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> vgscan creates cache copies of the metadata in /etc/lvmtab.d/.
>
> So if just vgscan and "vgchange -ay" run in the initrd, there's one copy
> for every VG in /etc/lvmtab.d/ *and*
>
> export LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS=no
>
> disables automatic backup creation in /etc/lvmconf/.
>
> vgchange needs little modification to read the data directly from the devices
> rather than from the cache files.
>
> Should I put that into LVM 1.0.4? ;-)
Yes, please do this.
(While I don't need this, my initrd is big enough and moves over to
tempfs very soon, but it would so much nicer to just do
vgchange -a y /dev/<root vg>/<root lv>
and save vgscan.
)
Just my 0.02 Euro,
Goetz.
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