[sclug] LVM & 2Tb limit

[Chris Aitken]

> I've read that kernel 2.4 suffers from a 2 TB limitation on 
> Block devices.
> I need to create a logical volume of around 12TB on a RHEL 
> 3.0 system, which also runs kernel 2.4 (albeit a RH kernel).
> 
> Has anyone any ideas if this is possible ?
> Is this limitation eliminated in kernel 2.6 / LVM 2?

Interesting. One would assume you could add as many sub 2 Tb devices into a
LVM volume group as possible. But then is a volume group a block device, or
is the Logical Volume a block device?

i.e.:
/dev/volume_group/logical_volume


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