I forget whether this is a case that's meant to work yet or not. If you can reproduce with the latest upstream code (and allocation/maximise_cling not set to 0 of course) post a link to the -vvvv trace which shows exactly how it's doing the allocation. 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/