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

Ming Zhang mingz at ele.uri.edu
Mon Jun 6 21:27:20 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:21 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks a lot for this information. It seems that this limitation is per
VG.

> Alasdair


Ming

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