From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5ME-0004EJ-83 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:12:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5MA-0004fU-RY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:12:06 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO5MA-0004eO-Kr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:12:02 -0500 Message-ID: <54E49DAA.5010003@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:11:54 -0700 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20150210133414.GE5202@noname.str.redhat.com> <20150210134242.GB19775@localhost.localdomain> <20150210135439.GF5202@noname.str.redhat.com> <54DA0EEA.7050908@kamp.de> <20150210145329.GG5202@noname.str.redhat.com> <54DC7112.30809@kamp.de> <20150212095821.GE4189@noname.str.redhat.com> <54DC7A1E.6070405@kamp.de> <20150212100638.GF4189@noname.str.redhat.com> <54DC7BC4.8080709@kamp.de> <20150212102307.GG4189@noname.str.redhat.com> <54DC7DFB02000091000EE3A0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <54DCB25502000091000EE465@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <54E495D3.80900@kamp.de> In-Reply-To: <54E495D3.80900@kamp.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J7gtw47gk3o3xCuIDQRASh4GFwbRL9jNx" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Lieven , Charles Arnold Cc: Kevin Wolf , Jeff Cody , "" , "" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --J7gtw47gk3o3xCuIDQRASh4GFwbRL9jNx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [meta-comment] 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 specif= ics :) >> In the end I think supporting at least the 2 TB size allowed by the sp= ec is what >> we need while not breaking existing images. >=20 > Thats clear, the absolute limit is 2 TB. We still refuse large images w= ith -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. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --J7gtw47gk3o3xCuIDQRASh4GFwbRL9jNx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJU5J2qAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nql6wH/ikWdwZXjX5y2iHYo96xcHma uWkbeZWmSIHDHa0p1mkq6YMGkI31chLeAhIRVUyREktIZDGKTIZf8qqfu0SvcGKl VhCH12MZ8KTshl45kWZBEnC2EbKgJoa5saBOk0tNMFrZaFLQSitzh8OrHlWN6c0O K2pXF98k79nsrgD8kV8DIjhPwU302T7zilWuEp9tnNtvYF6EpsPBnPUvisjy6cit U0JnildM51CyeWbRJynT//Kt/RNhlvGm2ka6Vv3yTiQkknrwq9oKY3hYv+Rfcvdf KEABBgqCkmcBew+AKALAFXdbzxaqey/PJDxIsrPpLQhLmhbb0GEq98I2B9wU4QU= =/cLq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J7gtw47gk3o3xCuIDQRASh4GFwbRL9jNx--