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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.
To avoid that, disable autoactivation after creating new LVs. lvcreate
on trixie does not accept the --setautoactivation flag for thin LVs
yet, support was only added with [2]. Hence, setting the flag is is
done with an additional lvchange command for now. With this setting,
LVM autoactivation will not activate these LVs, and the storage stack
will take care of activating/deactivating LVs when needed.
The flag is only set for newly created LVs, so LVs created before this
patch can still trigger #4997. To avoid this, users will be advised to
run a script to disable autoactivation for existing LVs.
[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4997
[2] 1fba3b876b
Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.proxmox.com/20250709141034.169726-3-f.weber@proxmox.com