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Re: [Qemu-devel] How do you do when write more than 16TB data to qcow2 o
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Re: [Qemu-devel] How do you do when write more than 16TB data to qcow2 on ext4? |
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Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:05:30 +0800 |
Really? How to mount a blk device to /dev/nbdN?
I always find tips to mount from file-like image to /dev/nbdN
2018-08-16 19:46 GMT+08:00 Eric Blake <address@hidden>:
> On 08/16/2018 03:22 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:35:52AM +0800, lampahome wrote:
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>>> We all know there's a file size limit 16TB in ext4 and other fs has their
>>> limit,too.
>>>
>>> If I create an qcow2 20TB on ext4 and write to it more than 16TB. Data
>>> more
>>> than 16TB can't be written to qcow2.
>>>
>>> So, is there any better ways to solve this situation?
>>>
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>> I'd really just recommend using a different filesystem, in particular XFS
>> has massively higher file size limit - tested to 500 TB in RHEL-7, with a
>> theoretical max size of 8 EB. It is a very mature filesystem & the default
>> in RHEL-7.
>>
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> Or target raw block devices instead of using a filesystem. LVM works great.
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