> Here is your answer taken from a document that helped me with the same > question… > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2.html > The extent size determines the maximum size that a logical volume can > be. As you can see from the above output, a 4 MB extent size imposes a > logical volume size limitation of 256 Gigabytes, which is an easily > attainable logical volume size if you're adding several high-capacity > drives to your volume group. If your volumes could end up being greater > than 256 GB apiece, I recommend specifying a larger extent size at > vgcreate time. Extents can range anywhere from 8 KB to 512 MB, and must > always be a multiple of two. By increasing the extent size above 4 MB, > the maximum physical volume size will be scaled accordingly, up to a > maximum of 1 Petabyte (although the current real-world size limit is 2 > Terabytes on x86 systems). I thought this limitation (2TB) would be removed in newer kernels, or am I mistaken? - Anders > For example, if I wanted to create a volume > group with 32 Megabyte extents, I'd type: > # vgcreate -s 32M main /dev/hda5 > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Reeves [mailto:luke@oceanlake.com] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:55 PM > To: 'linux-lvm@sistina.com' > Subject: [linux-lvm] Limits > What are the current limits (specifically on LVM 1.0.5) of each > volume/disk? I read 255GB in one of the docs. Can anyone fill me in? > Thanks. > Luke Reeves > luke@oceanlake.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
