Hello, there still seems to be a missunderstanding I want to have the following: --- Logical extents --- LE PV PE reads writes 00000 /dev/sdd1 00001 0 1 00001 /dev/sde1 00001 0 0 00002 /dev/sdf1 00001 0 0 00003 /dev/sdg1 00001 0 0 00004 /dev/sdh1 00001 0 0 00005 /dev/sdi1 00001 0 0 00006 /dev/sdd1 00002 0 0 00007 /dev/sde1 00002 0 0 00008 /dev/sdf1 00002 0 0 00009 /dev/sdg1 00002 0 0 00010 /dev/sdh1 00002 0 0 00011 /dev/sdi1 00002 0 0 00012 /dev/sdd1 00003 0 0 00013 /dev/sde1 00003 0 0 00014 /dev/sdf1 00003 0 0 ..... but with lvcreate -I 8 -L 40000M -n lvdata /dev/vgtest /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 .... I get --- Logical extents --- LE PV PE reads writes 00000 /dev/sdd1 00063 0 1 00001 /dev/sdd1 00064 0 0 00002 /dev/sdd1 00065 0 0 00003 /dev/sdd1 00066 0 0 00004 /dev/sdd1 00067 0 0 00005 /dev/sdd1 00068 0 0 00006 /dev/sdd1 00069 0 0 00007 /dev/sdd1 00070 0 0 00008 /dev/sdd1 00071 0 0 00009 /dev/sdd1 00072 0 0 00010 /dev/sdd1 00073 0 0 00011 /dev/sdd1 00074 0 0 00012 /dev/sdd1 00075 0 0 00013 /dev/sdd1 00076 0 0 00014 /dev/sdd1 00077 0 0 ... 02105 /dev/sde1 00063 0 0 02106 /dev/sde1 00064 0 0 02107 /dev/sde1 00065 0 0 02108 /dev/sde1 00066 0 0 02109 /dev/sde1 00067 0 0 02110 /dev/sde1 00068 0 0 02111 /dev/sde1 00069 0 0 02112 /dev/sde1 00070 0 0 A distribution like described above looks like this on HP-UX LVM: 00000 /dev/dsk/c16t0d0 00012 current 00001 /dev/dsk/c16t0d1 00012 current 00002 /dev/dsk/c17t0d2 00000 current 00003 /dev/dsk/c17t0d3 00000 current 00004 /dev/dsk/c16t0d4 00000 current 00005 /dev/dsk/c16t0d5 00000 current 00006 /dev/dsk/c17t0d6 00000 current 00007 /dev/dsk/c17t0d7 00000 current 00008 /dev/dsk/c16t1d0 00000 current 00009 /dev/dsk/c16t1d1 00000 current 00010 /dev/dsk/c17t1d2 00000 current 00011 /dev/dsk/c17t1d3 00000 current 00012 /dev/dsk/c16t1d4 00000 current Holger -----Original Message----- From: James Hawtin [mailto:oolon@ankh.org] Sent: Samstag, 30. November 2002 18:24 To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Cc: lvm-devel@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate distributed extent option This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set. _______________________________________________ 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/