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From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Add QCOW2 support
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:44:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110228094444.GD4834@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110226164442.GD2924@thunk.org>

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:44:42AM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> ext2/3/4's 2TB maximum file size limit.  The qcow2 image might be only
> a few hundreds of megabytes, so being able to have e2fsck operate on
> that image directly would be a huge win. 

driepoot:~> ls -ls /mnt/md3.img 
61558920 -rw------- 1 root root 2937535070208 Feb 26 00:36 /mnt/md3.img

61 Gigabytes in my case... (and my system finished counting: I have
8.9M directories on there...)

	Roger.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-25 12:49 [PATCH 1/4] e2image: Add support for qcow2 format Lukas Czerner
2011-02-25 12:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] e2image: Support for conversion QCOW2 image into raw Lukas Czerner
2011-02-25 12:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Add QCOW2 support Lukas Czerner
2011-02-26 16:44   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28  9:44     ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2011-03-01 11:42     ` Lukas Czerner
2011-03-07 10:40       ` Amir Goldstein
2011-03-07 12:40         ` Lukas Czerner
2011-03-09 16:30           ` Lukas Czerner
2011-03-09 17:52             ` Amir Goldstein
2011-03-17 13:05       ` Lukas Czerner
2011-02-26 16:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] e2image: Add support for qcow2 format Ted Ts'o

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