>Good discussion....the need to protect data under various contingencies >is why I use raid5 sets as the PVs. You can lose up to two and keep >your data, hot add, have spares, etc. You mean raid6 _______________________________________________ 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/