i had only reply from Andreas Dilger (3 the previous month and 1 this) and all the other posts are from me what am i doing , what the results are i'm still waiting smbd to help me all started here http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-August/008579.html if smbd take a look at all meseages with sender svetljo and with subject releated to PB's with LVM on software RAID i think he'll get the idea what is all about thank's