| PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Configuration and Administration Guide 4.2 (Linux) |
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| Appendix A General Notes | > A.1 Rules |
There are the following limits to the number of volumes that can be created within a group in the root class [Itanium]:
The number of volumes with the physical slice attributes set to "on" is limited to a maximum of 14.
Volumes with the physical slice attributes set to "off" cannot be created.
There are the following limits to the number of volumes that can be created within a group or a single disk in the local class [Linux2.6] or shared class:
You can create a maximum of 4 volumes with their physical slice attribute set to "on."
You can create a total of 224 volumes with their physical slice attribute set to "on" or "off."
You cannot create a volume with the physical slice attribute set to "on" in a stripe group or a concatenation group.
You cannot create a volume with the physical slice attribute set to "on" in a shadow class regardless whether the physical slice is registered with the partition table.
In addition, there are the following limits to the number of volumes that can be created within a class:
For the root class [Itanium], the number is limited to a maximum of 256.
For a local class [Linux2.6], the number is limited to a maximum of 224.
However, when groups are nested, the nested group can contain a maximum of 224 volumes and lower level groups collectively.
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