Greetings;
I've stumbled through the man page, and I've read the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file looking for clues and have come up pretty much as dumb as when I started.
I just bought a SATA controller & a 400GB deathstar, with the intention of putting F8 on it, using about 250 megs for an ext3 boot partition, 20GB each in ext3 for /home, /opt & /root, and the rest in the lvm2 filesystem. That will mean something over 300GB.
Is this beyond whatever size limitations the lvm2 filesystem can handle?
And as an aside, can F8 boot from a sata drive tied to an offboard interface now?
Gene Heskett wrote:
Is this beyond whatever size limitations the lvm2 filesystem can handle?
Not to my knowledge:
[9] 14:54:54 <kirash@bigbertha:~> sudo lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID y23Nho-vmLs-Kjqq-vkvo-Q7Lt-JMEq-NzEfHT LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.09 TB Current LE 35768 Segments 8 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0
And as an aside, can F8 boot from a sata drive tied to an offboard interface now?
That, I don't know... Sorry.
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I've stumbled through the man page, and I've read the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file looking for clues and have come up pretty much as dumb as when I started.
I just bought a SATA controller & a 400GB deathstar, with the intention of putting F8 on it, using about 250 megs for an ext3 boot partition, 20GB each in ext3 for /home, /opt & /root, and the rest in the lvm2 filesystem. That will mean something over 300GB.
Is this beyond whatever size limitations the lvm2 filesystem can handle?
No. ext3 tops at 8 terabytes or 16, depending on which version (and maybe depending on block size). lvm goes bigger, but I don't recall how much bigger. Big enough for ext4 I suspect.
ext3 addresses blocks, and its limit is what it can address with 32 bits.
Gene Heskett wrote:
And as an aside, can F8 boot from a sata drive tied to an offboard interface now?
I expect that depends on whether the BIOS sees it.
On Sunday 09 December 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I've stumbled through the man page, and I've read the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file looking for clues and have come up pretty much as dumb as when I started.
I just bought a SATA controller & a 400GB deathstar, with the intention of putting F8 on it, using about 250 megs for an ext3 boot partition, 20GB each in ext3 for /home, /opt & /root, and the rest in the lvm2 filesystem. That will mean something over 300GB.
Is this beyond whatever size limitations the lvm2 filesystem can handle?
No. ext3 tops at 8 terabytes or 16, depending on which version (and maybe depending on block size). lvm goes bigger, but I don't recall how much bigger. Big enough for ext4 I suspect.
ext3 addresses blocks, and its limit is what it can address with 32 bits.
Thanks John, that is one less worry for me. 'twould be nice though if those limits, or lack of them, were documented such as to be more easily found.
On Sunday 09 December 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
And as an aside, can F8 boot from a sata drive tied to an offboard interface now?
I expect that depends on whether the BIOS sees it.
That sounds reasonable, and its probably checkable just by plugging in the card. Thanks again, John.
Gene Heskett wrote:
ext3 addresses blocks, and its limit is what it can address with 32 bits.
Thanks John, that is one less worry for me. 'twould be nice though if those limits, or lack of them, were documented such as to be more easily found.
I just read better lists:-) I think this was on nahant recently. It may well be in the RHEL documentation, I've not read it or its equivalent for some years, and I would expect to find it in a Fedora wiki.