> The only thing I can think is that the SCSI device is not being > opened/initialised properly by LVM. This certainly wasn't happening > before ~July when I put the open/close_pv() functions in. But should > be working now. Puzzled. You really are using the new tools and not > old binaries in strange places ? I've been caught a couple of times > by this ... I'm pretty sure I'm using the correct binaries. Date/time stamps on the only ones I find on my system agree with when I compiled the latest release. I'm using the static links so the libraries should not be an issue either. The only binaries I run on my tests are pvcreate, vgextend, vgreduce, lvcreate, and lvremove. The patch of the kernel and kernel recompile went without errors. LVM is compiled as a module, not in the kernel itself. -- Karl Hakimian