On 11/24/2016 02:38 PM, Peter Rajnoha wrote: > On 11/24/2016 01:21 PM, Stefan Bauer wrote: >> hi folks, >> >> howto avoid pvescan to initialize lvm volume groups on startup (it's for a cluster setup)? auto_activation_volume_list was filled with the remaining VGs we want to setup. Manually it does what it should >> >> /sbin/lvm pvescan --config 'activation { auto_activation_volume_list = "vg2" }' only activates vg2 but keeps vg1 "untouched". >> >> But on system startup, all VGs are activated. (ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS) >> >> We also updated the ramdisk and verified, the changes are also in the ramdisks lvm.conf >> >> However vg1 is also enabled. >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated. > > It's important that all scripts which handle LVM activation at boot are > executed with vgchange -aay that honours the auto_activation_volume_list > (so not "vgchange -ay"). > > All init scripts and systemd units which upstream LVM2 provides are > executed with "-aay" already. > > You mentioned cluster setup - so are your VGs clustered and are you > using clvmd? If that's the case, the clustered VGs are activated either > by clvmd init script/systemd unit or external cluster resource agent > (e.g. pacemaker and clvm ocf file) which calls the vgchange to activate > the clustered VGs - that one needs to use "-aay" too. > I looked at Ubuntu specific environment and I can see there's /lib/udev/rules.d/85-lvm2.rules with: SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add|change", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}="lvm*|LVM*", RUN+="watershed sh -c '/sbin/lvm vgscan; /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y'" So that "watershed" should use vgchange -aay. Please report this for Ubuntu directly for them to fix this (as the "watershed" helper binary is specific to Debian/Ubuntu only). -- Peter _______________________________________________ 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/