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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Any way to speed up activation of volumes with
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To: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>, LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>

On 09/16/2015 02:27 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:

> Sorry, but there is no 'parallel' activation from lvm2 command - as lvm2 is not
> multithreadded app  (and is quite far away from that).


Just had a weird thought.  What would happen if I ran the "vgchange -ay" 
command, and then a few seconds later ran a bunch of "lvchange -ay" commands in 
parallel?

Would that maybe let me activate non-snapshotted volumes even if the snapshotted 
volumes took a long time?

Chris