Booting with LVM2 is much too slow

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 22, 2004, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Ben Steeves wrote:
>> This is what Alexandre Oliva wrote when I posted a similar question:

>> Anyhow, limiting the scanning to only the devices that matter for you
>> (with "a|regexp|", skipping everything else) will help speed up the
>> boot very significantly.

> For LVM root, this has to be part of initrd?

Yes, it probably helps, although it's not as critical for initrd,
since there are far fewer device files to scan at that time.  Current
mkinitrd will copy lvm.conf to initrd for you.

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