From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqWN2-0003QG-K3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:43:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqWMx-0003Nx-Fo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:43:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34561 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqWMx-0003Nj-3e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:42:55 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:38389) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqWMw-0004O9-MR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:42:54 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e39.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n35Hdm6N005175 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 11:39:48 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n35HgrFW178248 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 11:42:53 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n35HgrwT015976 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 11:42:53 -0600 Message-ID: <49D8ED9C.20304@us.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:42:52 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: fix image creation for large, > ~2TB, images References: <20090403212849.GC27148@sequoia.sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20090403212849.GC27148@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Glauber Costa Chris Wright wrote: > When creating large disk images w/ qcow2 format, qcow2_create is hard > coded to creating a single refcount block. This is insufficient for > large images, and will cause qemu-img to segfault as it walks off the > end of the refcount block. Keep track of the space needed during image > create and create proper number of refcount blocks accordingly. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491943 > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright > Applied. Thanks. Regards, Anthony Liguori