[Gllug] Max VG size in LVM 2

[Iain M Conochie]

- Tethys wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>  I can see that the old LVM1 had size limits with regards to Physical
>> Extents so the PE size was critical in creating the logical volume when
>> planing to have large VG's. However I can find no such details with
>> regards to LVM2.
>>     
>
> The PE limits are still there -- IIRC you can have 2^16 of them. The
> max LV size is 16TB on 32-bit CPUs and 8EB on 64-bit CPUs, so the max
> VG size must be at least that large.
>
> 	http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html#AEN407
>   


Nice one Tet

Cheers

Iain
> Tet
>
>   

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