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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:20:38 -0300
From: Du <eduardo@minicom.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 maximum logical volume size help
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To: Robbie Coss <robbie@vzavenue.net>, LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>

Take a look in XFS filesystem, I think its what you need, and it has a=20
great performance with big files too.

Robbie Coss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently running RHEL4 update 3  (kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL), and
> using LVM2 and the ext3 filesystem.
>
> I need to know what is the maximum logical volume size I can create. From
> the LVM2 Howto, the max size is stated to be 8 exebytes. However, the
> Red Hat doc says that the max filesystem size for ext3 is 8 TB.
>
> I am guessing that means I am limited to 8 TB if I want to use ext3 ???
>
> If so, then are there other filesystems I can use to overcome this=20
> limit. I want
> to be able to create volumes at least up to 100TB. Is there anything=20
> included
> with the Red Hat release that would be a good choice? Or anything free=20
> not
> included with Red Hat? Or anything commercial?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or opinions.
> Robbie
>
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