[linux-lvm] Cannot create LV beyond 16GB in size?

[Gonyou, Austin]

I tried choosing a size larger than 4mb, but i still can't make use of the
full amount. Not sure whats going on. Does it matter that one disk is
ATA100, and another is ATA66?

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger at turbolabs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Cannot create LV beyond 16GB in size?
> 
> 
> On Sep 25, 2001  12:01 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> > I've made 3 partitions. /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdb9. 
> > I'm going to stripe them and then use all available size. 
> > When I do lvcreate, it won't let me go above 16G. Whats up 
> with that?
> > Kernel 2.4.10
> > LVM 1.0 tools. 
> 
> You need to select a PE size larger than 4MB.  Also realize 
> that striping
> your LVs means all your data will be lost if one disk dies.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound 
> of antipasto,
>                  \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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