>> It sounds like a likely culprit, indeed. But Googling indicates that >> LVM2 has been compiled and used with uClibc for initramfs purposes so it >> should work fine. Tho maybe the problem is that those references I see > AFAIK, nobody is testing this regularly, especially not for the latest > releases. Also many (most?) distributions are now shipping an > initramfs with a full glibc environment so this use is becoming > less common. I think I've finally "tracked it down". Or at least I've found a workaround: if I pass "--disable-o_direct" to configure, everything works fine. While trying to track it down, I saw that calls to "read" (from within _io in dev-io.c) would often return garbage (tho not always). Not sure if it's a problem in LVM2, or in uClibc, or in the kernel, but I think I've already wasted more than enough time on this, so I'll just use the --disable-o_direct workaround. 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/