The key concept to grasp is that LVM works with devices (i.e. major number + minor number pairs) rather than filesystem paths and it makes a single "use or ignore" decision for each device (not for each path). One device might be reachable through more than one filesystem path that lvm has been configured to check and, if so, all the paths are checked against the filter independently and the results feed into that single decision according to the rules described. 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/