Hi from Cologne,

and thanks for releasing a free and non-crippled version of your software!

We are evaluating DSS-Lite on a dedicated machine (3ware Inc 9650SE SATA-II RAID, 4x500GB, RAID5).

So far, everything worked fine, but creating an initial volume group seems to take ages. Configuration->Volume Manager->Unit Manager has been showing status "Formatting" now for more than 2 hrs for just one 1396.95GB (the whole raid) VG container.

This kind of makes me wonder, taking into account that creating such a VG using standalone Debian Etch merely took some minutes on the same machine, including the LV creation and mkfs'ing the volume.

Is there something going wrong here or will it make sense to wait even longer?

Cheers & best regards
Chris