From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4AEgjv21680 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:42:45 -0400 Received: from swlx166.swmed.edu (swlx166.swmed.edu [199.165.152.166]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4AEgi0m018494 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:42:44 -0400 Received: from [129.112.118.137] (helo=utsouthwestern.edu) by swlx166.swmed.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BNBzK-0004sV-Td for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 10 May 2004 09:42:38 -0500 Message-ID: <409F94D8.40801@utsouthwestern.edu> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:42:32 -0500 From: Peter Smith MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <407C693E.2020700@utsouthwestern.edu> In-Reply-To: <407C693E.2020700@utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] >2TB with LVM v1.0.3? Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig25EC7C5C18F4EF26C1F5764E" 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: To: LVM general discussion and development This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig25EC7C5C18F4EF26C1F5764E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To follow up, we got our new 6000GB online and I was able to allocate all the space to a single VG, but obviously you can only allocate VG space into slices (LVs), each a block device, and each limited to the 2TB limit. Peter Smith Peter Smith wrote: > I'm running Redhat v7.2 (very old I know) and LVM v1.0.3 . I have a > 1600GB ext3 partition currently in use and am planning to grow that by > ~ 6000GB. From the documentation that I have found, it looks like I > may be able to do this without modification to my system. However, > I'm querying to verify it.. > > Current ext3 filesystem has 4KB block size (supposedly good to 16TB > total.) > > I have one LV defined with a size of "3456106496". I have two PVs, > the first (sdc) with a size of "1646481408" and a PE size of > "1048576", the second (sdd) with a size of "1815863296" and a PE size > of "1048576" as well. > > Allocation of the ext3 is at "1152717492" 1k-blocks used and > "548221548" 1k-blocks available right now. The RAID system that the > storage resides on has, up until now, sort-of enforced a roughly <2TB > limit per device (2 cabinets currently with 1600GB and the RAID can > not span cabinets,) I can continue to allocate ~ 2TB per device to fit > within the kernel 2.4 32-bit block device limit. I do not know if I > am actually limited to 1TB per device as I've read before from Redhat, > so that may be a possibility. > > Here is my current vgdisplay > [root@swlx201 root]# vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name data > VG Access read/write > VG Status available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > MAX LV Size 2 TB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 2 > Act PV 2 > VG Size 1.61 TB > PE Size 1 GB > Total PE 1648 > Alloc PE / Size 1648 / 1.61 TB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > > > Any comments, questions, etc VERY welcome. > > Peter Smith > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > --------------enig25EC7C5C18F4EF26C1F5764E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAn5Tc/TMBbARZqsERAmtJAJ0T0beZTkNbzicKddToXpAjAebxHACfUbSO 3K+Nonc2OTHj9KUpMcCFVF4= =UXbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig25EC7C5C18F4EF26C1F5764E--