> . . . I want to see the entire sequence of address translation from > a logical address given by the application to the physical address . . . Don't do any RAID5 since it is done in hardware . . . But running "lvdisplay -m <a_vg>" does give a mapping of logical volume extents to physical extents # echo ; lvdisplay -m datavg | egrep "LV Name|Logical extent|Physical [volume|extents]" LV Name /dev/datavg/u01 Logical extent 0 to 5119: Physical volume /dev/sdb Physical extents 0 to 5119 LV Name /dev/datavg/u02 Logical extent 0 to 1279: Physical volume /dev/sdb Physical extents 5120 to 6399 LV Name /dev/datavg/arch01 Logical extent 0 to 9982: Physical volume /dev/sdb Physical extents 6400 to 16382 _______________________________________________ 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/