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Currently up to 99 volume groups with a grand total of 256 logical vol-
umes can be created. The limit for the logical volumes is not caused by
the LVM but by Linux 8 bit device minor numbers.
This means that you can have 99 volume groups with 1-3 logical volumes
each or on the other hand 1 volume group with up to 256 logical volumes
or anything in between these extreme examples.
Depending on the physical extent size specified at volume group cre-
ation time (see vgcreate(8) ), logical volumes of between a maximum of
512 Megabytes and 1 Petabyte can be created. Actual Linux kernels on
IA32 limit these lvm possibilities to a maximum of 2 Terabytes per log-
ical and per physical volume as well. This enables you to have as much
as 256 Terabytes under LVM control with all possible 128 scsi disk sub-
systems. You can have up to 65534 logical extents (on IA32) in a logi-
cal volume at the cost of 1 Megabyte in kernel memory. Physical vol-
umes can have up to 65534 physical extents. |
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