Receiving error "Exceeds maximum number of slabs supported" when creating a new VDO volume

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Issue

  • When creating vdo on a 28 TB drive I am getting a slab error

    vdo: ERROR - vdoformat: formatVDO failed on '/dev/mapper/vgVDO-lvVDO': VDO Status: Exceeds maximum number of slabs supported.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
  • VDO

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