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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: lampahome <pahome.chen@mirlab.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB?
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 08:59:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803065905.GB4380@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3eZfudS9D3G-JSNcaeZO_vWYBQytSbSLzDSLd+abGU9mLeoA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 03.08.2018 um 06:46 hat lampahome geschrieben:
> There's file size maximum in ext4 and it's 16TB
> 
> Can I create qcow2 ex:32TB and write more than 16TB?

qcow2 images can be larger than 16 TB, but if you actually write that
much data to them, you can't store them on ext4, because obviously they
are still just files and the filesystem limit applies.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-03  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-03  4:46 [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB? lampahome
2018-08-03  6:59 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2018-08-03  7:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé

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