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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Bug 1261320 <1261320@bugs.launchpad.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1261320] [NEW] Virtual Disk with over 16TB
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:48:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131216154831.GA16756@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131216093735.6862.14254.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com>

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:37:34AM -0000, Chris Weltzien wrote:
> is there a option to create a disk for a vm with a size over 16TB.
> 
> the problem that after the diskfile reach 16TB, the disk get a state of read-only at this limit.
> I know, that 16TB file size is max, is there a option to create the disk in mutliple files?
> we want to use 22 TB. in the VM 

Basically no, not in a clean way for a production VM.  Can you attach
multiple disks to the guest and then use software RAID0 or LVM to get a
22 TB device inside the guest?

If not, here are some options:
1. Switch to a different file system (XFS is your best bet)
2. Use LVM (and get a slight performance boost for free!)
3. Tweak file system settings (e.g. bigger block size may allow larger
files)

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-16 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16  9:37 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1261320] [NEW] Virtual Disk with over 16TB Chris Weltzien
2013-12-16 15:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2013-12-16 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1261320] " Chris Weltzien
2017-01-26  7:55 ` Thomas Huth

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