Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

[Eric Blake]

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On 02/18/2015 06:38 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Am 09.02.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum

That's a LOT of nested quoting.  It's okay to trim your reply to cut out
the portion of the thread that people have already seen 17 times. :)

>> Right, although this was a long time ago for me to remember the specifics :)
>> In the end I think supporting at least the 2 TB size allowed by the spec is 
>> what
>> we need while not breaking existing images.
> 
> Thats clear, the absolute limit is 2 TB. We still refuse large images with 
> -EFBIG.
> Before your patch every image above 127GB was refused with that error.

For example, trimming to just this much means that the reply occurs on
the first screenful, rather than having to scroll through several pages
of quotes to find new content.

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