John Marquart wrote: > I think you are running into a problem i had. look in the archives for > mails from/to jomarqua@indiana.edu - but i think the problem is your > inline functions that lvcreate uses. > > There is a patch that was recommended to me - should fix your problem i > think - it is at: > > http://incandescent.mp3revolution.net/lvm/inline_fix.diff > > -j yup, that did it. after flailing with patch rejects against unknown sources, backed up and re-did tar xvfz then the patch applied w/o rejects, compiled w/o errors, and lvcreate worked ! [root@groucho 1.0.1-rc2]# lvcreate -L1500 -nVL_test VG_test lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "VG_test" lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/VG_test/VL_test" successfully created [root@groucho 1.0.1-rc2]# lvscan lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/VG_test/VL_test" [1.46 GB] lvscan -- 1 logical volumes with 1.46 GB total in 1 volume group lvscan -- 1 active logical volumes [root@groucho 1.0.1-rc2]# lvdisplay /dev/VG_test/VL_test --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VG_test/VL_test VG Name VG_test LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 1 # open 0 LV Size 1.46 GB Current LE 375 Allocated LE 375 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 120 Block device 58:0