Hi, I use RHEL4 update 1 with RedHat cluster suit and RedHat GFS installed, I want to test GFS under gnbd, when i create LVM, I recive error messages. This is my approach: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testgnbd bs=1M count=1023 1023+0 records in 1023+0 records out # modprobe gnbd # gnbd_serv gnbd_serv: startup succeeded # gnbd_export -d /tmp/testgnbd -e testgnbd -c gnbd_export: created GNBD testgnbd serving file /tmp/testgnbd # gnbd_import -i localhost gnbd_import: created directory /dev/gnbd gnbd_import: created gnbd device testgnbd gnbd_recvd: gnbd_recvd started # pvcreate /dev/gnbd/testgnbd Physical volume "/dev/gnbd/testgnbd" successfully created # vgcreate testvg /dev/gnbd/testgnbd Volume group "testvg" successfully created # lvcreate -L 1000 -n testlv testvg Error locking on node ECGL2-a5770c: Internal lvm error, check syslog Failed to activate new LV. # tail /var/log/messages lvm[2041]: Volume group for uuid not found: 66FkLTuXUlgOglMBKqLEBIBvB1Pj08K7OAxo9QRNT60mqgLVs4dmQVI4T4f58Xi7 # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "testvg" using metadata type lvm2 #lvscan inactive '/dev/testvg/testlv' [1000.00 MB] inherit Please help me to resolve the problem, thanks! -- soul -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster