Re: [dm-devel] Re: LVM on dmraid breakage

[Phillip Susi <psusi cfl rr com>]

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:17:47AM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> > 1) disable the automatic vgscan performed by every lvm command
>
> With access to a 100% accurate external device database instead of the
> existing .cache this is easy.
> The --trustcache argument would be enabled by default on such a system.

It doesn't even need to look somewhere special for a cache, just needs 
to be passed the list of devices on the command line it should open 
rather than generating a list from a readdir() of /dev.