From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why minor is still 8 bit?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:52:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCD5869.8000306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCD0591.2050504@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-05 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 1:25 George Shuklin
2012-06-04 1:35 ` Al Viro
2012-06-04 3:53 ` George Shuklin
2012-06-04 16:11 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-06-04 18:59 ` George Shuklin
2012-06-05 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-06-05 1:08 ` George Shuklin
2012-06-05 9:23 ` Paul Bolle
2012-06-05 9:36 ` George Shuklin
2012-06-05 9:49 ` Paul Bolle
2012-06-05 11:13 ` George Shuklin
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