From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM & LFS support Message-ID: <20030510155825.GA24798@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat May 10 10:58:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tuesday, 29 April 2003, at 14:09:44 -0400, Selimaj, Naxhije wrote: > Does LVM support files greater that 2GB? > I'm running the default LVM (1.0.3) on RH8. I currently have a 1.2TB > LVM ext3 filesystem mounted. If >2GB file is supported, what changes > need to be made to my existing setup. > I think the 2 GB limit on files is a filesystem limitation, not a block device limitation, and as LVM is a block device level feature, it should not impose any limits on file sizes. As far as I know, RH8 is recent enough to fully support large files (greater than 2 GB), but maybe you are using some sort of application not ported still to support large files, or an application on your. I seem to remember that things like "old" cpio didn't support large files, check if this is the case with "strace", and look for file open()'s with flags O_LARGEFILE. From open(2): O_LARGEFILE On 32-bit systems that support the Large Files System, allow files whose sizes cannot be represented in 31 bits to be opened. Hope it helps. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.5.69)