On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27:08AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Paul E Condon <p...@mesanetworks.net> wrote > about 'Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop': > >On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:33:46PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> On Tuesday 2009 January 13 19:36:22 Paul E Condon wrote: > >> >I do this because I want to > >> >store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > >> >limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > >> >files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) > >> > >> HD hardware interfaces do not know where files begin and end.[1] You > >> *might* be using a filesystem that limits you to 4Gb. If so, LVM won't > >> buy you anything and you'll have to switch filesystems. > > > >My hope is that I can write a bunch of 4G files mount them as 4G hard > > drives, and group them into a single 'volume group' whose total capacity > > is some large multiple of 4G. Is this impossible? > > It's probably a bad idea. BUT, it should be possible. > > It would be much better to use ext[234], jfs, xfs, or even reiserfs > directly on the drive. You say you have problems, but I'm using reiserfs > across a raid-0 on WD driver and reiserfs across a raid-1 on WD drives > without issues. Could you go into more details.
I tried ext3 about a year ago and I could get it onto the disk. I couldn't remember the details of why it didn't work, so I decided to try again to gather some current data with which to confront this community, but --- IT WORKED! Thanks to all for provoking me into new action! -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
