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

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Tue Feb 21 12:09:33 UTC 2012


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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