On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 10:39:37AM -0500, David Teigland wrote: > I think it would be an improvement to: > > . Make obtain_device_list_from_udev only control how we get the device > list. Then we can easily default to 0 and readdir /dev if it's better. > > . Use both native md/mpath detection *and* udev info when it's readily > available (don't wait for it), instead of limiting ourselves to one > source of info. If either source indicates an md/mpath component, > then we consider it true. > > The second point means we are free to change obtain_device_list_from_udev > as we wish, without affecting md/mpath detection. It may also improve > md/mpath detection overall. Here are the initial patches I'm testing (libmpathvalid not yet added) https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev-dct-device-info-1 devices: rework native and udev device info . Make the obtain_device_list_from_udev setting affect only the choice of readdir /dev vs libudev for a device name listing. The setting no longer controls if udev is used for device type checks. . Change obtain_device_list_from_udev default to 0. A list of device names is obtained from readdir /dev by default, which is faster than libudev (especially with many devices.) . Change external_device_info_source="none" behavior: remove libudev device info queries for "none", so libudev usage will be avoided entirely. "none" remains the default setting. . Change external_device_info_source="udev" behavior: information from libudev is added to the native device info rather than replacing the native device info. This may be useful if there is some gap in the lvm native device info. . Remove sleep/retry loop when attempting libudev queries for device info. udev info will simply be skipped if it's not immediately available. Because udev info is supplementary to native info, it's not essential to get it. filter-usable: remove udev dev size check For the pv_min_size check, always use dev_get_size() which is commonly used elsewhere, and don't bother asking libudev for the device size when external_device_info_source=udev. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
