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...on with more drives we are planning several 20TB+ systems. For the work we do a single file system over 100TB is not unreasonable. We will be replacing a 80TB SAN system based on StorNext with a Isilon system with 10G network connections. If there was a way to create a Linux (Centos) 100TB ? 500TB or larger clustered file system with the nodes connected via infiniband that was easily manageable with throughput that can support multiple 10Gbps Ethernet connections I would be very interested. And once more thanks for the fast response. Mike

Hi! Folowing setup: 4x HD 500TB 1st: /boot 4GB, remaining part LVM 2nd, 3rd, 4th all LVM LVM volumes: - 30G /root - 8G /var - 8G /tmp - 200G /var/log/pgsql - 800G /var/spacewalk - 4G swap System boots into emergency mode because it does not find any of the logical volumes defined, because it does not enable the LVM volume grou...

So, I''ve read the wikipedia, and have done a lot of research on google about it, but it just doesn''t make sense to me. Correct me if I''m wrong, but you can take a simple 5/10/20 GB drive or whatever size, and turn it into exabytes of storage space? If that is not true, please explain the importance of this other than the self heal and those other features. Thank you