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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:23:31 +0200
From: Jan-Hendrik Palic <billgotchy@ki.tng.de>
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Subject: [linux-lvm] calculating size of metadata.
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Hi there,

we planning to create a pv and vg on a 19,95TB partition running on 
raid6. One issue I have is the size of the metadata. I am looking for a 
way to calculate the this size, but unfortunatly, I cannot find a some.
Which size should I use?

Thanks in advance.

Jan