From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0SHcbtT002562 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:38:37 -0500 Received: from scidubsmtp03.stercomm.com (scidubsmtp03.stercomm.com [209.95.244.153]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0SHcGxe029483 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:38:16 -0500 Received: from IWDUBCORMSG002.sci.local (iwdubcormsg002.sci.local [10.105.142.32]) by boamail2.stercomm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DFF33CE2 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM limits? From: Chris Cox In-Reply-To: <479E2BEF.1090703@cesca.es> References: <479DAD35.1080209@cesca.es> <479E2BEF.1090703@cesca.es> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:38:14 -0600 Message-Id: <1201541894.30560.24.camel@behemoth.csg.stercomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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" To: LVM general discussion and development 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?