On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:17:14PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > Yes. I actually see no way around this, except to tap into a general > 'emergency' memory pool. I thought there was something like it, but I > forgot the name ;-) Doesn't pvmove use the same? PF_MEMALLOC; At the moment this is used for both loading tables, and making them active. Once the LVM tools start preloading properly, it will only be used for the activation (resume) operation. - Joe