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From: Ling Li <ling@caltech.edu>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm pvscan or vgscan very slow
Date: Fri Feb 13 18:27:06 2004	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402D5D93.7040802@caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212180824.O10533@homer.msp.redhat.com>

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> It shouldn't be that slow!
> Look at your system log and/or run with -vvv to see why it's so slow.

# lvm pvscan -vvv > ~/pvscan-list
# grep "Added to device cache" pvscan-list  | wc -l
   15813

I guess the number of devices to be scanned is just too large (and my 
computer is also a very slow one). Is there some way to specify a 
narrower range of devices to be scanned in LVM2?

> We've a couple of speed-ups that might help (one uses sysfs to reduce
> the number of devices to scan) - they're in the queue of things waiting
> to be checked into CVS after the repository move.
> I'll try to get them imported tomorrow.
This kind of patch will definitely help!

--Ling

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 18:33 [linux-lvm] lvm pvscan or vgscan very slow Ling Li
2004-02-12 19:07 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-02-13 18:27   ` Ling Li [this message]
2004-02-13 18:33     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-02-13 19:07       ` Ling Li
2004-02-14  5:11         ` Heinz Mauelshagen

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