It is also possible to change the default LVM behavior
so that it will not retry forever. There is an lvchange option that will establish a timeout value which will
cause LVM to return an error to the application if the access to
the array has failed and the timeout period has expired. The command
uses the following format:
lvchange -t <seconds> /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>
This command must be run from one host, on all logical volumes in
the package volume groups. A starting timeout value of 60 seconds
is suggested; the timeout must not be set to
less than 60 seconds.
Once the lvchange -t command is run on a host, all other hosts will automatically
inherit the new timeout value for the logical volumes. View the
current timeout value by running the lvdisplay command and checking the value listed for “IO
Timeout (Seconds)”. If the value is displayed as “default,” then
LVM will use the default behavior and retry forever.
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