On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Iain Morris <iain.t.morris at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Look in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf > > 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. > > (assuming your physical disks are sas/sata) > > filter = [ "a/^/dev/sd*/", "r/.*/" ] For all HDs this should work: filter = [ "a/^/dev/[hs]d*/", "r/.*/" ] Run a 'vgscan -vv' to test. -Ross -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101027/7f81de3f/attachment-0005.html>