Maximum LVM size Q?

[Gene Heskett]

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.

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