On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Paul E Condon <pec@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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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