With a new compiled kernel from kernel.org 2.6.30 and lvm2,dmsetup from lenny repos i keep getting: # vgchange -a y device-mapper ioctl: error adding target to table table: device 9:0 too small for target table: 253:11: linear: dm-linear Device lookup failed device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument I have everything compiled into the kernel, also DM, not as module. but it did say: 12 logical volume(s) in volume group st1500 now active and i can see them in /dev/mapper if i tried to mount each of them it said: mount: you must specify the filesystem type or some other weird error message i do have xfs in my kernel and can mount other xfs filesystems but all my dm filesystems fail for some reason Here is my config root@mlap:~/mfs# grep CONFIG_DM .config CONFIG_DMI=y # CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=y # CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT is not set CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y CONFIG_DM_ZERO=y CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=y # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set # CONFIG_DM_UEVENT is not set # CONFIG_DM9102 is not set CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y CONFIG_DMIID=y # CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is not set root@mlap:~/mfs# grep CONFIG_XFS .config CONFIG_XFS_FS=y CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y # CONFIG_XFS_RT is not set # CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is not set root@mlap:~/mfs# grep CONFIG_MD .config CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y # CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y CONFIG_MD_RAID10=y CONFIG_MD_RAID456=y CONFIG_MD_RAID6_PQ=y # CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH is not set CONFIG_MD_FAULTY=y # CONFIG_MDIO_BITBANG is not set Any ideas what I am missing ? mdadm is active on the raid, 10 of 10 disks are up and /dev/mapper/st1500-bigdaddy exists, i just cannot mount it, i could do this before kernel and system upgrade (i use an other lenny install now, but i updated udev,dmsetup, cryptsetup,lvm2 to most recent versions on it) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html