I have read various posts on this topic and none have been answered so I thought I'd try again. I have spent an afternoon with google trying to find any information on using ext3 on a LVM2 LV on a RAID 5 PV. I have found various reports of this working OK but no recommendations for PE size for the LV, the 'chunk-size' on the RAID and the mk2fs stride option. If anyone uses this configuration I would greatly appreciate any input on what values you used for the options above and any other good or bad experiences you had with this setup. Thanks in advance, Rupert Ps. Details of the machine in question (in case they are relevant): 9 x 250GB drives spread across various parallel and serial ATA controllers. Debian testing with kernel 2.6.6 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/