Thanks everyone for your replies. See my comments below: > (Shabazian, Chip) wrote: >> Why not just create the /db volume in the %post? Well, firstly I wanted to use the "logvol" option because it does a lot of work for you, but the main problem with a %post approach is that one of the RPMs that gets installed puts a lot of stuff into /db. I actually use a hack right now where that RPM uses lvextend & resize2fs to expand the volume to the full 16TB before installing stuff into it. > (Digimer) wrote: >> That would be a work-around to Arun's problem without addressing >> the underlying issue. With single drives being 2TB now, it's an >> issue that deserves direct attention, I would think. Thanks Digi, and agreed. I currently use the ugly workaround I mentioned above and it works fine, but the fix to anaconda seems really easy to me. More importantly, I feel that this is something that other folks will run into and a fix would save them a lot of headache. > (Pablo Iranzo G?mez) wrote: >> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ >> See the section related to capabilities/limits, specially when it >> says that for EL5 limits is 8TB, but for 5.1 is 16TB, for bigger FS >> you'll need gfs. It's usual to have gfs in 'solo' mode for getting >> better performance for larger storage capabilities. Thanks Pablo. I will look at GFS but my needs are fairly simple and don't really necessitate a cluster file system. With my current lvextend workaround described above, Ext4 is doing a great job with the 16TB partition. I just wish that anaconda/kickstart wouldn't limit Ext4 partitions to 8T. > (Steffen Maier) wrote: >> I think a discussion on this has at least started on anaconda-devel: >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2010-January/msg00291.html Yeap that is exactly my problem, except that I'm using Ext4 and not XFS. I just wonder if the current 8TB limit is intentional (I'm no filesystem expert) or just an oversight when the Ext4 FS type was extended from Ext2. Arun _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
