From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zdenek Kabelac Subject: Re: dm-thin - issue about the maximum size of the metadata device Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:39:35 +0200 Message-ID: <5200D267.5060606@redhat.com> References: Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development Cc: =?UTF-8?B?5qKB5paH5b2l?= List-Id: dm-devel.ids RG5lIDYuOC4yMDEzIDA2OjE4LCDmooHmloflvaUgbmFwc2FsKGEpOgo+IEhpIGZvbGtzLAo+Cj4g SSBjdXJyZW50bHkgZG8gc29tZSBleHBlcmltZW50cyBvbiB0aGUgZG0tdGhpbi1wcm92aXNpb25p bmcgdGFyZ2V0cy4KPiBPbmUgb2YgdGhlc2UgZXhwZXJpbWVudHMgaXMgdHJ5aW5nIHRvIGNyZWF0 ZS9maW5kLW91dCB0aGUgbGFyZ2VzdCB0aGluIHZvbHVtbgo+IG9uIHRoZSBwb29sLgoKVGhlcmUg 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