From: DGS <dgs@gs.washington.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 8TB logical volumes with LVM2
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:36:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060125043640.GA10792@goldfinger.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670601241950m711f3e0dn@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:50:04PM -0800, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to configure a system with 2 12 port 3ware 9550SX SATA RAID
> cards to join the two physical volumes exported by the cards into a
> single logical volume. There are 24x400GB drives, so the total is just
> above 8TB.
I did pretty much the same thing on a Caos Linux system with two
twelve-port 3ware 9000 SATA raid and twenty-four 250 GB disks,
creating one big 6.6T file system. No problems to report from
here. You did make GPT labels on the two SCSI devices, didn't
you?
David S.
>
> After running the following commands:
>
> pvcreate --metadatasize 1024 /dev/sdb1
> pvcreate --metadatasize 1024 /dev/sdc1
> vgcreate -s 128M vg0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
> lvcreate -n lv0 -L8T vg0
>
> The lvcreate command gobbles up CPU and memory as would be expected,
> however, I get the following error message:
>
> device-mapper device too small for target: /dev/sdb1
> device mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument.
> could not load device vg0-lv0
> failed to activate new LV
>
> Am I doing something incorrectly? I've tried with both Fedora Core 3
> and Fedora Core 4. Any pointers on how I should continue with this
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Devon H. O'Dell
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-25 3:50 [linux-lvm] 8TB logical volumes with LVM2 Devon H. O'Dell
2006-01-25 4:36 ` DGS [this message]
2006-01-25 5:23 ` Devon H. O'Dell
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