<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi, I'm running into a weird problem with pvcreate. It doesn't seem to want to let me use a software RAID metadisk as a PV. Here's what I get: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre>root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate /dev/md7 pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up physical volume "/dev/md7" root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate -v /dev/md7 pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/md7" pvcreate -- getting physical volume size pvcreate -- checking partition type pvcreate -- creating new physical volume pvcreate -- setting up physical volume for /dev/md7 with 0 sectors pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up physical volume "/dev/md7" root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate --version pvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1-rc3 Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 01/10/2001 (IOP 10)</pre> </blockquote> I'm running a 2.4.10 kernel, patched with the lvm 1.0.1rc3 patch... (and my own quick fix for the '__update_hardsectsize' vs. '__update_hardblocksize' issue). So: this (software RAID metadisks as lvm PVs) *is* supposed to work, right? Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks In Advance, Bill Ellis </html>