> I didn't use LVM, and don't trust layering of any technology. I'm curious as to why you say that? >From my experience almost everything in software is layered or an abstraction. The Network & Storage stacks are just layers of code running over top other lower layers. LVM & RAID are just another layer in the storage stack, and well tested ones I might add. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- 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