On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:24:33AM -0800, Betsie Spann wrote:

> I found a Linux guest at 2.4.7-31, May 21, 2002.   I was able to dasdfmt and
> fdasd 151 mod 9's after running mknod on the dasdaa - dasdex vols.   I
> created a logical volume group and am attempting to create a 1TB logical
> volume.  Now I'm up against "mazimum VGDA kernel size of 268427264". Trying
> to figure this one out.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2.html

Basically, make your extents bigger.  4M extents give you a maximum size
of 256G.  So you need at least 16M extents for a 1T filesystem.

Create your volume groups with

vgcreate -s 16M name /dev/dasdXY

(Or give yourself room to grow and vgcreate -s 32M)

Adam

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