Hi All, Need the suggession for the folling issues : Operating System : rhel 5.5 , 86_64 In our environment, 16 nodes are in cluster and shared storage is being used. Multipath is used, and there was no aliases. The admins created the disk, with the /dev/dm.... Now they changed the multipath config file and incorporated the aliases. The alias names are as follows: HOST-1TB-CLVM-VG04-DISK1 HOST-1TB-CLVM-VG02-DISK1 and so on. They use the filter in lvm.conf as filter = [ "r/scsi.*/","r/pci.*/","r/sd.*/","a/.*/" ] They did not enable the "preferred_names" option in lvm.conf Now the problem is, lvm related any commands are getting hung. While debugging the issue I activated the "preferred_names" option in lvm.conf and found the errors as follows: [root@server ~]# lvs File descriptor 4 (/dev/pts/0) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 20817: bash WARNING: Ignoring duplicate config node: preferred_names (seeking preferred_names) I mentioned literally all the vgnames under "preferred_names" in lvm.conf but still the errors are same. If anybody gives some suggesstion , how to rectify the issue that will be really helpful. Thanks in advance _______________________________________________ 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/