Hello, I am evaluating lvm2 I use the following : LVM2.1.95.10 device-mapper.0.96.04 , kernel 2.4.19 after installing everything I copied the example.conf to /etc/lvm/lvm.conf Everything works fine except one thing, the filtering on devices to scan the corresponding entry in my lvm.conf is: filter = ["a/sda/", "r/.*/"] this is so only the sda devices get scanned as explained in the man page. But it doesn't work , when I do a "lvm vgscan" it scans all devices in the /dev directory, not very nice of lvm to not listen to its filter directives. It is a clean system, no previous lvm was installed, I created one vg , called data with one pv , /dev/sda3 , size 8.68 Gb. I then created a lv , lvol0 size 1700 PE's, and the rest of the PE's (520) I keep to make a snapshot. The lvm partition will be used to store the database of an accountant package, and the remaining PE's wil be used to make snapshots of the database. Works all perfectly when tested, except for the scan filter. Any hints as what might be the problem? TIA Wim Bakker _______________________________________________ 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