[linux-lvm] Re: VG vg1 metadata writing failed

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:04:04PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
> this is reproducible on another box.
 
There is currently a 64k hard-coded limit on metadata size.

Some of the lvm2 tool algorithms also get quite slow when
there are lots of entities.

Keep an eye on the CVS code - there was an allocation speed-up 
added recently, and the 64k limit should be disappearing very 
soon too.

Alasdair
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