el log will be: attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100 The patch will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped device from being created. This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a multiple of the chunk-size. The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its chunk-size. (akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous) Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds âW'›–4x