Re: [SLUG] Logical Volume Manager

From: Ryland Bingham (ryland@t3t.com)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 16:16:25 EDT


Is this limit for LVM in Linux in General?

>>There is a fdisk table limit is 4 primaries, one of which may
>>be of extended type, and a total maximum of 13 to 16 depending
>>on hard drive type (IDE v SCSI).
>>
>>-- Russ Herrold

Using redhat 7.1 and 7.2, I've created as many as 37 partitions on a
single drive. I think the theoretical limit is 64. I install mainframe
OS's (z/OS z/VM VSE) in Linux using Flexes emulation. To achieve the
best I/O performance on the emulated DASD I need many raw(no linux file
system) partitions(up to 30 on a 80GB drive) to match the size of a real
Mainframe Dasd devices.

I'm very interested in LVM if it can be used to dynamically handle a
large number of partitions. I've not found any practical guideline on
implementation only white papers and the such. Any body got experience
or references?

 

-- 
Ryland Bingham
Unix/Linux Specialist
T3 Technologies-An IBM Premier Business Partner
St. Petersburg, Florida



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