[Linux-cluster] Re: Size limits of the various components

[Stephen Willey]

I've had no replies to this but following the recent failure of gfs_fsck
I'm guessing GFS still doesn't scale well.

Or am I missing something?

Stephen



Stephen Willey wrote:
> We're testing GFS on 64 bit servers/64 bit RHEL4 and need to know how
> big LVM2 and GFS will scale.
> 
> Can anyone tell me the maximum sizes of these component parts:
> 
> GFS filesystem
> (C)LVM2 logical volume
> (C)LVM2 volume group
> (C)LVM2 physical volumes
> 
> We're considering building a filesystem that may need to scale to 100Tb
> or more and I've found various different answers on this list and elsewhere.
> 
> Stephen
>