Another factor might be different contents in your lvm.conf file compared with mine, or different devices present causing you to hit a problem code path and me not to. Or some other difference in the distribution/compiler/libraries etc. Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/