[linux-lvm] 64K limit for VG/LV
Dieter Stueken
stueken at conterra.de
Tue Jan 22 06:59:01 UTC 2002
I just merged two volume groups without any error message,
but the result seems to have more than 65535 LE now. The only
effect until now is, that the number of free PE becomes negative
and is displayed as an unsigned huge value:
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg0
VG Access read/write
VG Status available/resizable
VG # 0
MAX LV 256
Cur LV 9
Open LV 2
MAX LV Size 255.99 GB
Max PV 256
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
VG Size 286.33 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 73300
Alloc PE / Size 97200 / 379.69 GB
Free PE / Size 4294943396 / 1.91 TB
VG UUID QDKBpV-xwqr-gO3b-VKiA-Jaf4-grmm-pWEY32
My VG consists of 4 x 75 GB IBM-DTLA-307075. Should I worry now?
If there is any limit of 65536 I might suspect some 16bit value
for PE addressing. If no overflow is checked, a wrong PE may be
addressed beyond LE 65536 and my VG possibly gets destroyed :-(
But I found some hints in the mailing archive, saying that the
64K limit does not affect the VG itself but only each LV inside.
Thus as long as each of my LV is <256G I don't have to worry, and
the reported "Free PE" might be just cosmetics.
Besides, vgdisplay says: "Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1-rc2"
On SuSE 7.3 running 2.4.16.
If I want to increase my LE size, I think I have to create a new VG.
Is there any tool to copy my LVs to the new VG other than "dd"?
Dieter.
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