From: Chris Cox <chris_cox@stercomm.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM limits?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:38:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201541894.30560.24.camel@behemoth.csg.stercomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479E2BEF.1090703@cesca.es>
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 20:24 +0100, Jordi Prats wrote:
> Hi all,
> I found on a webpage this two sentences:
>
> - The combination of 32-bit CPU and Linux kernel version 2.6.x, the
> limit of logical volume size is maximized at 16TB.
>
> - For Linux kernel 2.6.x running on 64-bit CPU, the maximum LV size is
> 8EB (extremely terrible big storage for this time being!)
>
> Are they right?
Ok. But it's really impractical to have large multi-terabyte
single filesystem today. What are you wanting to do? Ever fsck a
2TB filesystem? Consider yourself warned.
Or... were you just curious about the maximums?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 10:23 [linux-lvm] LVM limits? Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 19:24 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 17:38 ` Chris Cox [this message]
2008-01-28 18:01 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-28 19:08 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-28 19:53 ` Vesa-Pekka Palmu
2008-01-28 21:52 ` Joseph L. Casale
2008-01-28 23:38 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-29 0:27 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-29 10:04 ` Ehud Karni
2008-01-29 16:16 ` Chris Cox
2008-01-29 0:16 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-28 23:47 ` Jordi Prats
2008-01-29 6:58 ` Michael Eisenkölbl
2008-01-29 17:38 ` Lars Ellenberg
2008-02-01 5:40 ` David Robinson
2008-02-01 13:08 ` [linux-lvm] LVM limits? OT Steeve McCauley
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