>>>>> "JB" == Jon Bendtsen <jon+lvm@silicide.dk> writes: JB> True true, but then your boot device is software raid ?? Yes, but not on LVM. /boot and / were mirrored (all eight ways, which I know is overkill). JB> And lilo ?? It didn't have any problem; it wrote identical boot blocks to all eight disks, and would boot with the first disk in the system disconnected. This was the first such server I built and I did it some time ago so I haven't tried with anything more modern like Grub. - J< _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/