[linux-lvm] safe to ru-run vgscan after mounting LV root?

[Mark van Walraven]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> You can run vgscan as many times as you like. The main reason you wouldn't is
> the time it can take. But even that is small compared to the initialisation time

Thanks for the feedback.  That's what I figured, but ...

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:01:50AM -0500, Jay Sissom wrote:
> Just a warning.  When I run vgscan on my system, it deletes my LV.  I
> still don't know why.  There seems to be a terrible bug in vgscan.

... this worries me.

Could anyone else comment on this, please?  Is Jay's problem bizzare
and irreproducable, or is there possibly a problem with replacing the
lvmtab files from beneath the noses of the other tools?

Thanks,

Mark.