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new exit message on all commands?: Wiping internal VG cache

linux-lvm Linda A. Walsh 2 participants 2 messages Feb 13, 2011 – Feb 14, 2011

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Not sure when this started, but AFAIK, I haven't upgraded any of my lvm commands, unless some included/linked lib was updated, though I don't recall much of that lately either.

But now whenever an 'lvm' command (lvs, pvs, 'lvcreate --help', etc...) runs, the last line of output is 'wiping internal VG cache'...

Any idea(s) why?

This is in Suse 11.2-x64, with lvm2-2.02.45 (running from the 11.3 source, trying unsuccessfully to get around a bug squirly nested bug in the snapshot library, running w/a 2.6.35.7 kernel. (I.e.

I upgraded my kernel -- but that broke 'lvm's snapshot ability. I tried to upgrade lvm but my suse seems to package part of it in their boot-disk package along with other unrelated stuff making it very difficult to upgrade 1 part.

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But now whenever an 'lvm' command (lvs, pvs, 'lvcreate --help', etc...) runs,
the last line of output is 'wiping internal VG cache'...

Upstream, that only appears with -v and was added in March 2005. (I might move it to -vv)

Alasdair