[dm-devel] Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate with a 52 drive volume

markw at osdl.org markw at osdl.org
Tue Aug 19 15:14:02 UTC 2003


On 19 Aug, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:00:12PM -0700, markw at osdl.org wrote:
>> On 18 Aug, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:09:18PM -0700, markw at osdl.org wrote:
>> >> Ok, I increased the size of argv to 2048 in the dm-table.c file that's
>> > 2048 is probably too big for the kernel stack.
>> > Set it only as big as you need it.
>> Yeah, I got greedy, 1024 worked for me. :)
>  
> Here's a patch to try that removes the hard-coded limit of 32.
> 
> (Plus one to fix the error message if you give a linear
> target more than 2 arguments.)

I've applied it to 2.6.0-test3-mm3 and it works.

Thanks,
Mark




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