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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Fix werror=enospc for qcow2 on iscsi
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:06:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151022100642.GB3850@ad.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56289F1C.2040605@kamp.de>

On Thu, 10/22 10:32, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Am 22.10.2015 um 10:17 schrieb Fam Zheng:
> >When qcow2 is created on iscsi target with a virtual size greater than physical
> >capacity of the LUN, over time it's possible that guest fills too much data and
> >at that point, new clusters in qcow2 will be allocated beyond the end of disk.
> 
> Why would you want to put a QCOW2 on a fixed size block device?
> 

It can have a backing file.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22  8:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Fix werror=enospc for qcow2 on iscsi Fam Zheng
2015-10-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] iscsi: Translate scsi sense into error code Fam Zheng
2015-10-22  8:31   ` Peter Lieven
2015-10-22  8:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-22  9:11       ` Peter Lieven
2015-10-22  9:51       ` Fam Zheng
2015-10-22  9:56         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-22  9:11   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qcow2: Translate -ERANGE to -ENOSPC Fam Zheng
2015-10-22  8:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Fix werror=enospc for qcow2 on iscsi Peter Lieven
2015-10-22 10:06   ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2015-10-22  8:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-22  9:03   ` Kevin Wolf

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