Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block/vdi: Limit maximum size even futher

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2014-10-28 at 11:12, Max Reitz wrote:
> The block layer read and write functions do not like requests which are
> bigger than INT_MAX bytes. Since the VDI bmap is read and written in a
> single operation, its size is therefore limited accordingly. This
> reduces the maximum VDI image size supported by QEMU to half of what it
> currently is (down to approximately 512 TB).
>
> The VDI test 084 has to be adapted accordingly. Actually, one could
> clearly see that it was broken from the "Could not open
> 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Invalid argument" line for an image which was
> supposed to work just fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Reducing the size to just under 512 TB wasn't enough because the bmap
>    size is rounded up on sector boundaries; fixed (thanks for testing,
>    Peter)
> - Finally a patch regarding this problem that I tested myself :-)

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