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Re: VA7100

 
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Nobody's Hero
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VA7100

Tried to create a 167 gb file system on 11.0 N40000.
Error File too large.
Tried to create a 80 gb file system.
Error file too large.

What is the file system creation limit????
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Leif Halvarsson_2
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Re: VA7100

Hi
If I dont remember wrong there was a 128GB filesystem limit in 11.0 (with vxfs). I am quite sure I had larger filesystems then 80GB.
S.K. Chan
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Re: VA7100

I'm guessing your getting this error in your vgcreate command ? If that's the case what actually happened is the default 4MB extent size is probably not enough to store the LVM data structure because you got such a huge number of physical extents that needs to be stored in the LVM data structure. Try to increase your pe_size in your vgcreate command .. start with 8 if it does not like it increase it to 16, 32, 64 and so on until it stop complaining (check man vgcreate)
# vgcreate -s 8 /dev/vgXX /dev/dsk/cXtYdZ
S.K. Chan
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Re: VA7100

Answering the other question ..
Depending on your JFS version these are the limits ..
Version 3
- Supports 128GB FS and 128GB files on 10.20
- Supports 1TB FS and 1TB files on 11.0 & above
Version 4
- Supports 1TB FS and 1TB files on 11.0
Vincent Farrugia
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David Bell_1
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Re: VA7100

Robert,

Make sure if you're using SAM that you have the patch PHCO_23436. This is for the interaction between SAM and vxfs for the 1TB filesystem that S.K. mentioned.

HTH,

Dave
Vincent Farrugia
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Re: VA7100

or 1Tb anyway...
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