I think it means you don't have enough physical disks to create a 4-column
mirror-stripe (with logging?). You could try less columns or adding more
physical disks.

in article 3cc819d1$1@hronntp01., Jules at julgut01@netscape.net wrote on
4/25/02 7:59 AM:

>
> Can someone tell me what this error means? And how do I fix?
>
> # vxassist -g sharedg make dbvol01 600m layout=mirror-stripe ncol=4
> vxvm:vxassist: ERROR: Cannot allocate space for 1228800 block volume
>
> Thanks.