On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:27:34PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
But I don't yet see why it didn't also open the other devices, write a
warning
message about duplicate IDs, and do the right thing and give them
precedence.
Why would it open the other devices? LVM does not scan /dev/mapper/*,
only /dev/sd*. Since it does not scan the /dev/mapper devices for pvs,
it sees no duplicates and can not "do the right thing".
LVM scans the whole /dev directory, unless you configure it otherwise.
L.
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