On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:23:31PM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > Hi there, > > we planning to create a pv and vg on a 19,95TB partition running on > raid6. One issue I have is the size of the metadata. I am looking > for a way to calculate the this size, but unfortunatly, I cannot > find a some. > Which size should I use? Depends on how many LVs you intend to have, and how much LV fragmentation you expect. I'd estimate 1 to 2 kByte LVM meta data per expected LV, that should be on the safe side. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
