Gitansh, God bless you! I've been asking for this for a long time, but the Sistina people who sponsor LVM are moving to a closed commercial solution. I can't answer your questions because I don't really do too much low level programming, but I would love to be kept in the loop on your progress. Thanks very much and Good Luck! Jeff Layton Lockheed-Martin Gitansh Chadha wrote: > hi....well i am an undergraduate student from Pune ,India and we implementing a cluster LVM as our final year > project.we are manipulating vg_status in vg_t structure to determine the status the of a volume group.basically > playing with the bits in it.so we can have a shared and exclusive locked volume group.we also have a administrator > which communicates with all nodes in the cluster and basically to maintain the consistency of the LVMTAB.any > suggestions? gitansh _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html