[linux-lvm] 8TB logical volumes with LVM2

Devon H. O'Dell devon.odell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 05:23:56 UTC 2006


2006/1/24, DGS <dgs at gs.washington.edu>:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:50:04PM -0800, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to configure a system with 2 12 port 3ware 9550SX SATA RAID
> > cards to join the two physical volumes exported by the cards into a
> > single logical volume. There are 24x400GB drives, so the total is just
> > above 8TB.
>
> I did pretty much the same thing on a Caos Linux system with two
> twelve-port 3ware 9000 SATA raid and twenty-four 250 GB disks,
> creating one big 6.6T file system.  No problems to report from
> here.  You did make GPT labels on the two SCSI devices, didn't
> you?
>
> David S.

Apparently not. I've got it now; I did indeed need to create the GPT
labels. Thanks for the reminder; I appreciate it.

--Devon




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