From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EC0951E.90304@silicide.dk> From: Jon Bendtsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM & LFS support References: <20030510155825.GA24798@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue May 13 01:47:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote: > 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. Other than not being larger than the blockdevice, and doesnt the blockdevice has a limit of 2T ? > 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. Maybe thats why i have some trouble with pipes for files larger than 2G JonB