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SubjectRe: Why minor is still 8 bit?
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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