From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q1LGZFrx005412 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:35:15 -0500 Received: from www.bettercgi.com (www.bettercgi.com [74.122.122.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1LGZ6bp018518 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:35:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (r74-192-17-33.bcstcmta01.clsttx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net [74.192.17.33]) by www.bettercgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF11E21946 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:35:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:35:03 -0600 From: Ray Morris Message-ID: <20120221103503.4ba74c70@bettercgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20120221120933.GB12645@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> References: <4F43588B.8040202@agenda.si> <20120221120933.GB12645@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Duplicate PV's - how does LVM choose which one to use Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Perhaps when duplicates are found the seqno should be incremented so it DOES use the same one next time, and generate a warning indicating which one is out of date? -- Ray Morris support@bettercgi.com Strongbox - The next generation in site security: http://www.bettercgi.com/strongbox/ Throttlebox - Intelligent Bandwidth Control http://www.bettercgi.com/throttlebox/ Strongbox / Throttlebox affiliate program: http://www.bettercgi.com/affiliates/user/register.php On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:09:33 +0000 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:40:43AM +0100, Danilo Godec wrote: > > How does LVM decide which one to use? Will it always choose the > > same one? > > You can't rely on that. > > I'm starting to wonder if we should add an lvm.conf option to stop > when it sees duplicates of equal priority instead of going ahead and > using one, and to make that the default behaviour. > > Alasdair > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >