Stale volume entries under MountedDevices and CurrentControlSet registries not removed after the volume is deleted
When you create a volume, its volume entry gets created under the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\STORAGE\Volume
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
This issue occurs when you delete a volume, during which its corresponding volume entries under the MountedDevices and CurrentControlSet registries are not deleted automatically. If these stale entries are not deleted, then the registry becomes full with them. Because of this, the volume arrival operation may take a long time or fail. (3329663)
Workaround: As a workaround, use the
vxscrub utility to delete stale volume entries that are not needed.
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