> I guess you can also hit this "known" problem with > old lvm toolset (<2.02.29) and new kernel with new sysfs layout. Yes, sorry about that, that was the culprit. I had done a "apt-get upgrade", but forgot that this box runs Debian "stable". After upgrading lvm2 to the "testing" version of the lvm2 package, the problem disappeared. Thank you for your help, Stefan _______________________________________________ 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/