10TB filesystem possible on Red Hat 4 EL System?

Peter Kjellstrom cap at nsc.liu.se
Wed Aug 15 11:06:15 CDT 2007


On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Griffin, Edward wrote:
> Your problem is your Physical Extent Size is only 4.00MB, from the man
> page on vgcreate "The default of 4 MB leads to a maximum logical volume
> size of around 256GB."  In addition "there is a limit of 65534 extents
> in each logical volume."

uuuh, nope. RHEL4 uses lvm2 which was not the what the above text refers to. I 
have, for example, a 8.5 TiB lv with default 4M PE.

/Peter
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