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

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:01:18PM -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. 

BTW: don't stripe across /dev/hdd1 & /dev/hdd2 or performance will
be spectacularly bad !

You should only stripe across different disks and, ideally, different
controllers.

patrick