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- Widespread and supported in most modern operating systems.
- Maximum size of the device depends on the underlying systems limitations.
- Maximum size of Logical Volumes is 8 EiB on 64-bit Linux and 16 TiB on 32-bit Linux.
- Storage devices, RAID system, network storage (e.g. iSCSI) can be used as Physical Volumes (no need of partitioning).
- Provides basic forms of data redundancy (RAID 1, RAID 5) or stripset (RAID 0) for performance.