On 6/15/2010 3:17 PM, Takahiro Yasui wrote: > Everytime lvm command is executed, all PVs are accessed. > > This is a known issue and what we should fix. If there are a lot of > PVs, execution of lvm command could take a long time. The scan also > affects error recovery time of lvm mirror. > > This is an old reference. > > Introduce metadata cache feature > https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2009-April/msg00014.html This seems to limit the number of metadata copies on pvs that are accessed to one, but I am seeing even block devices that are not pvs accessed, like it is scanning for new pvs. This patch seems like it would help some though, but it is over a year old. Did it never get applied? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/