Re: lvmetad status

Thanks Zdenek, How about in memory caching of device properties? That was
also supposedly a function of lvmetad isnt it?
Do we have a suitable replacement for the same?

Also, why is lvmetad deprecation not called out more noticeable. I still
see man pages and many distro continue to use lvmetad.

Thanks


On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:15 PM Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dne 03. 03. 23 v 13:19 Lakshmi Narasimhan Sundararajan napsal(a):
> > Hi Team!
> > A very good day to you all.
> > Can anyone please confirm the current status of lvmetad?
> > Is this deprecated? On the lvm2 dev branch I see as early as 2018 that
> it
> > has been removed, but I do not see any other information anywhere on its
> status.
> >
> > Is there some place where the reason is called out?
> > I still see distros default flag to use_lvmetad = true and man pages
> calling
> > out usage of lvmetad.
>
>
> Hi
>
>
> lvmetad has been removed and replaced with better udev rule logic and
> files
> stored in /run/lvm directory.
>
> So autoactivation works without this daemon.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Zdenek
>
>
>
>

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