On Monday 21 Oct 2002 7:22 pm, William Blunn wrote: > > Greetings. My volume is 225 GB in size and getting too small. > > Unfortunately, I used the default PE size when creating the volume > > group. Is there any way I can overcome the 256 GB limit ... > > In the LVM 1.0.x series, > > Given the sizes of modern hard disk arrays, > maybe the default PE/LE size should be changed from 4 MiB to 16 MiB, > in the LVM 1.0.x series. > > My feeling is that more people's needs would fit into 1 TiB than fit > into 256 GiB. doesnt LE size affect snapshot performance too? > Perhaps a few people with small hard disks might complain: "I made an VG > and it used the default PE/LE size of 16 MiB. The granularity is too > coarse. Is there any way I can reduce the PE/LE size?" > > Of course I don't think many people would ever make this complaint, and > even if they did, it would be because their disk arrays were small, say > less than 500 MiB. vgcreate knows the size of its initial PV. If the default LE size was increased, vgcreate could give a warning if the initial PV was small enough to be inconvenient. _______________________________________________ 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/
