[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH pve-storage v5 2/2] lvmthin: disable autoactivation for new logical volumes

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Wed Jul 9 17:39:18 CEST 2025


On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:09:59 +0200, Friedrich Weber wrote:
> When discovering a new volume group (VG), for example on boot, LVM
> triggers autoactivation. With the default settings, this activates all
> logical volumes (LVs) in the VG. Activating an LV creates a
> device-mapper device and a block device under /dev/mapper.
> 
> Autoactivation is problematic for shared LVM storages, see #4997 [1].
> For the inherently local LVM-thin storage it is less problematic, but
> it still makes sense to avoid unnecessarily activating LVs and thus
> making them visible on the host at boot.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[2/2] lvmthin: disable autoactivation for new logical volumes
      commit: 2796d6b6395c2c4d0da55df51ca41b0e045af3a0




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