topic Re: Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue in Operating System - Linux

Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:27:15 GMT

Hi

We have a RHL Running 8.0 with OS delivered LVM. We are facing problem (system hangs) when we create a Oracle tablespace more than 2 GB size.

But, when we create files of size 400-600 Megs, it just works fine.

Is there any patch needed to be applied? Is there any workaround?

Thanks
Vijay

Re: Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

Mark Grant — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:15:18 GMT

I'd be interested to know which file system you were using though all the filesystems on 2.4 kernels support greater than 2GB files. LVM certainly does and wouldn'd create the logical volumes if it couldn't.

Do you have quota support enabled?

Re: Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

Matt Palmer_2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:14:16 GMT

Hi,

I had a similar issue with PostgreSQL and DB2 using the ext3 filesystem. I changed over to reiserfs and the problem seems to have stopped. I dont know if this might help you.

Re: Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

Jerome Henry — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:39:45 GMT

This issue if often reported.
Check that you do all this as root, not having sued.
Check you use updated Glibc.
The problem exists between 2.4.10 and 2.4.18-pre something I think. It
was a result of 2.4.10 moving block devices into the page cache, which
treated them like regular files, and ulimit applies to regular files.
If you have e2fsprogs 1.26, it should have a fix for this problem.

hth

J

Re: Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:55:17 GMT

Thanks guys for your help.

I dont have this issue right now. I need to check for this agiain.

Thanks a lot
Vijay