Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:52:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Why minor is still 8 bit? |
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On 06/04/2012 11:59 AM, George Shuklin wrote: > Very simple sample: I'd like to create shared storage to publish volumes > via ISCSI. ~60Tb of drives, ~2Gb average disk size = 30k disk images. > Can I just create a bunch of LV and export them by iet or scst? Nope: > There is a serious limit for amount of active LV per host. Yes, I can > create filesystem, put images (as file) to that filesystem and publish > them back, but why FS is needed to do such simple task?
You realize that with that many volumes, a logical volume manager *is* a filesystem, right?
-hpa
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