Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262083AbVATWED (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:04:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262143AbVATWEC (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:04:02 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:54227 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262083AbVATWC4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:02:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:02:52 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: Norbert van Nobelen Cc: "Trever L. Adams" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LVM2 Message-ID: <20050120220252.GA14097@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alasdair G Kergon , Norbert van Nobelen , "Trever L. Adams" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1106250687.3413.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200501202240.02951.Norbert@edusupport.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501202240.02951.Norbert@edusupport.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 21 On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: > A logical volume in LVM will not handle more than 2TB. You can tie together > the LVs in a volume group, thus going over the 2TB limit. Confused over terminology? Tie PVs together to form a VG, then divide VG up into LVs. Size limit depends on metadata format and the kernel: old LVM1 format has lower size limits - see the vgcreate man page. New LVM2 metadata format relaxes those limits and lets you have LVs > 2TB with a 2.6 kernel. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/