[linux-lvm] Duplicate PV's - how does LVM choose which one to use

[Ray Morris]

Perhaps when duplicates are found the seqno should be incremented 
so it DOES use the same one next time, and generate a warning 
indicating which one is out of date?
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:09:33 +0000
Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:40:43AM +0100, Danilo Godec wrote:
> > How does LVM decide which one to use?  Will it always choose the
> > same one?
> 
> You can't rely on that.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if we should add an lvm.conf option to stop
> when it sees duplicates of equal priority instead of going ahead and
> using one, and to make that the default behaviour.
> 
> Alasdair
> 
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