(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #13) > (In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #12) > > > > Well, that's known generally. The YAML is an incomplete representation of > > the devicegraph. > > Just to clarify, that has nothing to do with the reported problem. AutoYaST > cloning uses a different format and algorithm, not related at all with the > Yaml or XML representations we log. That much is clear. But the question was: Does the cloning part do that extra iteration over each LVM LV because it might have sub-elements itself; which only happens in the case of a thin pool LV? AFAICS normally, LVs don't have children elements.