Is XFS available in RHEL5.4? Is there simply an RPM to download and install similar to CentOS? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Georgios Magklaras <georgios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/16/2011 07:16 PM, Matty Sarro wrote: >> >> Out of curiousity, what is the maximum size volume that LVM can >> handle? I know that it sits as a wedge between the actual logical >> volume the system sees, and the hardware. Is there a limit? >> >> At the moment we are looking at a maximum storage of 72TB for log >> storage. My planned approach is to create a separate LUN and >> disk-group for each folder on our log server, and then create a >> logical volume and mount it under the FTP/NFS server's directory. Then >> as more storage is needed, simply create a new LUN on the SAN, add it >> as an LVM disk in the disk group for that particular folder, and let >> LVM handle growing the logical volume. Is it bound to the same disk >> max size as EXT3 (16TB)? Or is there another barrier to worry about? >> >> Am i misunderstanding the capabilities of LVM? >> > > When considering storage at large quantities, the thing you have to start > from is what happens at the logical volume level, where you have the > filesystem. I believe that RHEL's ext3 and ext4 are still on a 16 TB per > filesystem (aka logical volume) limit. If you wish to go larger per logical > volume/filesystem, in RHEL you need to look at XFS. In RHEL 6, an XFS > filesystem is supported up to 100 Tbytes. > > To answer your original question, LVM2 on an 64bit CPU and a 2.6 kernel can > support up to 8EB per single LV. So, the limit is not LVM but your > filesystem choice. > > GM > > > -- > -- > George Magklaras > Senior Systems Engineer/IT Manager > Biotek Center, University of Oslo > EMBnet TMPC Chair > > http://folk.uio.no/georgios > > Tel: +47 22840535 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
