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* [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB?
@ 2018-08-03  4:46 lampahome
  2018-08-03  6:59 ` Kevin Wolf
  2018-08-03  7:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: lampahome @ 2018-08-03  4:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: QEMU Developers

There's file size maximum in ext4 and it's 16TB

Can I create qcow2 ex:32TB and write more than 16TB?

thx

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB?
  2018-08-03  4:46 [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB? lampahome
@ 2018-08-03  6:59 ` Kevin Wolf
  2018-08-03  7:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Wolf @ 2018-08-03  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lampahome; +Cc: QEMU Developers

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

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB?
  2018-08-03  4:46 [Qemu-devel] Can I create img more thant 16TB? lampahome
  2018-08-03  6:59 ` Kevin Wolf
@ 2018-08-03  7:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel P. Berrangé @ 2018-08-03  7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lampahome; +Cc: QEMU Developers

On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 12:46:19PM +0800, lampahome wrote:
> There's file size maximum in ext4 and it's 16TB
> 
> Can I create qcow2 ex:32TB and write more than 16TB?

You'll need to switch to a more scalable filesystem such as XFS to be
able to write more then 16TB of data.

Regards,
Daniel
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