From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0P4a0129153 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:36:00 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153] (may be forged)) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0P4Zx9H020748 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:35:59 -0500 Received: from goldfinger.local (goldfinger.local [10.0.0.20]) by doctorno.local (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0P4ZqZh016548 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgs@doctorno.local) Received: from goldfinger.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goldfinger.local (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0P4afFF016709 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgs@localhost) by goldfinger.local (8.12.11/8.12.11) id k0P4afSj020531 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:36:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:36:40 -0800 From: DGS Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 8TB logical volumes with LVM2 Message-ID: <20060125043640.GA10792@goldfinger.local> References: <9ab217670601241950m711f3e0dn@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9ab217670601241950m711f3e0dn@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/