LVM Maximum Volume Size?

[Matty Sarro]

Is XFS available in RHEL5.4? Is there simply an RPM to download and
install similar to CentOS?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Georgios Magklaras
<georgios at biotek.uio.no> wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 07:16 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiousity, what is the maximum size volume that LVM can
>> handle? I know that it sits as a wedge between the actual logical
>> volume the system sees, and the hardware. Is there a limit?
>>
>> At the moment we are looking at a maximum storage of 72TB for log
>> storage. My planned approach is to create a separate LUN and
>> disk-group for each folder on our log server, and then create a
>> logical volume and mount it under the FTP/NFS server's directory. Then
>> as more storage is needed, simply create a new LUN on the SAN, add it
>> as an LVM disk in the disk group for that particular folder, and let
>> LVM handle growing the logical volume. Is it bound to the same disk
>> max size as EXT3 (16TB)? Or is there another barrier to worry about?
>>
>> Am i misunderstanding the capabilities of LVM?
>>
>
> When considering storage at large quantities, the thing you have to start
> from is what happens at the logical volume level, where you have the
> filesystem. I believe that RHEL's ext3 and ext4 are still on a 16 TB per
> filesystem (aka logical volume) limit. If you wish to go larger per logical
> volume/filesystem, in RHEL you need to look at XFS. In RHEL 6, an XFS
> filesystem is supported up to 100 Tbytes.
>
> To answer your original question, LVM2 on an 64bit CPU and a 2.6 kernel can
> support up to 8EB per single LV. So, the limit is not LVM but your
> filesystem choice.
>
> GM
>
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