<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Iain Morris <<a href="mailto:iain.t.morris@gmail.com">iain.t.morris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ross Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com">rswwalker@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="h5">You need to exclude the LVs in the host VG from being scanned for sub-VGs. It's actually easier to just list what SHOULD be scanned rather than what shouldn't.</div></div>
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Look in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This worked, thanks. A couple of people emailed me separately on this. For others' reference, I added the following filter to lvm.conf on dom0 and disabled the default "get everything" filter. If anyone sees any pitfalls with this regex, I'm sure you'll let me know.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(assuming your physical disks are sas/sata)</div><div><br></div><div>filter = [ "a/^/dev/sd*/", "r/.*/" ]</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>For all HDs this should work:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">filter = [ "a/^/dev/[hs]d*/", "r/.*/" ]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Run a 'vgscan -vv' to test.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">-Ross</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div></body></html>