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