Hi all, On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Pierre Beck wrote: > I wonder if LVM activation can be done without writing to the array? > IIRC it updates at least some timestamp ... we tried setting the array itself read only, which prevent (or it should) anybody above, filesystem or LVM, to perform writes... Neveretheless, the result was a bit "strange", namely a kernel BUG() or similar, we had to reset the PC. I'm not sure if this was caused by other issue, since the PC was in a not really healty state, or a direct consequence of md device in r/o. bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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