From: Steve Costaras <stevecs@chaven.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] size of a PV > 2TB possible? (kernel with LBD support)
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:19:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3F2BC3.4000606@chaven.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3F1A65.90100@gmx.at>
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Yes, PV's can be larger than 2TiB. I currently have PV's around
5.46TiB here but have had them up to 10TiB on other machines. Don't
know what the max size is though.
Steve
On 01/02/2010 04:05, Sulla wrote:
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> Dear all!
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> I'm sorry I have to ask this question to this mailing list, but I have not
> been able to find sufficient and conclusive informaiton on the web. The
> mailing-list archive at redhat seems not to be searchable.
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> What is the maximum size of a PV in LVM2?
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> I run linux 2.6.24 kernel (Ubuntu server 8.04 LTS, 32bit i386) with lvm2
> 2.02.26 and mdadm 2.6.3.
> The kernel has CONFIG_LBD=y in its configuration.
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> I currently use a 2TB (just under 2TB, 1.98TB actually) raid5 array /dev/mdN
> as the one and only PV in a VG. I would like to grow the array by addition
> of another disk to 3TB and then expand the PV.
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> As far as I understand mdadm, on a kernel with LBD support it should be able
> to create a blockdevice>2TB, but I am not sure that LVM2 will accept it as
> a PV.
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> The LVM2-Howto on TLDP (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html)
> confirms that LVs can be>2TB (16TB on 32bit OS, 8EB on 64bit OS), but says
> nothing at all about PVs. Could somebody add that information?
>
> thanx for support
> kind regards,
> Sulla
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2010-01-02 10:05 [linux-lvm] size of a PV > 2TB possible? (kernel with LBD support) Sulla
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