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Luca Berra wrote:

> i still believe it would be better if lvm ignored md component devices 
> completely.

In kernel 2.6 land this is easy to do as well (for everything, not just 
MD). When vgscan tries to open the device to read metadata, open it with 
O_EXCL. If any other kernel subsystem is currently using the device, 
then the open() will fail and vgscan can ignore the device.