So look at thin provisioning with its zeroing option. External origin. (support currently being added to lvm) Or this not-yet-upstream target: http://people.redhat.com/agk/patches/linux/editing/dm-add-zeroed-target.patch 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/