Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 02:17:59PM +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote:   > Look at filter examples in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf   That's not what I'm looking for.  I *do* have LVM physical and logical volumes on most of my drives, e.g. a volume group on my backup drive. And I want an explicit call to vgscan to find

Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-19 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 15 Dec 2017 11:36 pm, "Steve Keller" wrote: When calling LVM commands it seems they all scan all disks for physical volumes. This is annoying because it spins up all disks that are currently idle and causes long delays to wait for these disks to come up. Also, I don't understand why LVM comm

Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Steve, On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > When calling LVM commands it seems they all scan all disks for > physical volumes.  This is annoying because it spins up all disks that > are currently idle and causes long delays to wait for these disks to > come up. Can y