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authorAlasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2011-11-28 20:37:51 +0000
committerAlasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2011-11-28 20:37:51 +0000
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Add activation/use_linear_target enabled by default. (prajnoha)
LVM metadata knows only of striped segments - not linear ones. The activation code detects segments with a single stripe and switches them to use the linear target. If the new lvm.conf setting is set to 0 (e.g. in a test script), this 'optimisation' is turned off.
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@@ -490,6 +490,11 @@ activation {
# or snapshotted volumes is likely to result in data corruption.
missing_stripe_filler = "error"
+ # The linear target is an optimised version of the striped target
+ # that only handles a single stripe. Set this to 0 to disable this
+ # optimisation and always use the striped target.
+ use_linear_target = 1
+
# How much stack (in KB) to reserve for use while devices suspended
# Prior to version 2.02.89 this used to be set to 256KB
reserved_stack = 64