On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:56:58PM +0200, Wim Bakker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am evaluating lvm2
> I use the following :
> LVM2.1.95.10 device-mapper.0.96.04 , kernel 2.4.19
> after installing everything I copied the example.conf
> to /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
> Everything works fine except one thing, the filtering on
> devices to scan
> the corresponding entry in my lvm.conf is:
> filter = ["a/sda/", "r/.*/"]
> this is so only the sda devices get scanned as explained in
> the man page. But it doesn't work , when I do a "lvm vgscan"
> it scans all devices in the /dev directory, not very nice of
> lvm to not listen to its filter directives.
I think there's some confusion about what vgscan will be doing and
where the filters fit in. Certainly I just had to look at the code to
remind myself:
vgscan will stat *every* device under the /dev tree (or elsewhere if
you've specified a different dev dir).
If the device is a block device it will then pass it through the
predicate functions/filters in the following order:
i. Regex - is the device accepted by the regexs specified in lvm.conf?
ii. LVM check - is this device a 'recognised' device type. eg, IDE,
md, loop etc.
iii. Is it a valid partition number.
iv. Can I successfully open the device
*** This is the expensive operation for non existent devs ***
Personally I see no need for checks ii. and iii. they will probably
disappear.
So with your filter which accepts every device containing 'sda' you
will find that /dev/ide0 is 'stat'd but no more than this. However
with /dev/sda8 (non existent) you will get as far as the open test
before being rejected.
Once vgscan has been run the tools will not even stat failed devices.
NOTE: You don't always need to run vgscan on startup with LVM2,
only if you know some devices have moved - I just run 'vgchange -ay' in
my init script.
- Joe
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