Volume Groups fail to activate at boot time after adjusting LVM filter

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Some Volume Groups fail to activate at boot time after adjusting LVM filter to use mpath devices, others work fine
# grep filter /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
    filter = [ "a/mpath/", "r/.*/" ]
# lvs -o +devices
  LV          VG                 Attr   LSize   Devices                       
  lv_one      vg_one    -wi-ao  20.00G /dev/mpath/mpath1(0)    
  lv_two      vg_two    -wi-ao 385.00G /dev/mpath/mpath2(0)   
  lv_three    vg_three  -wi-ao 250.00G /dev/mpath/mpath3(0)
  lv_four     vg_four   -wi--- 250.00G /dev/mpath/mpath4(0)    
  lv_five     vg_five   -wi---  20.00G /dev/mpath/mpath5(0)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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