linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Add QCOW2 support

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Message-ID: <20110228094444.GD4834@bitwizard.nl>
Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:44:44 +0100
From:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	sandeen@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Add QCOW2 support

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:44:42AM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> ext2/3/4's 2TB maximum file size limit.  The qcow2 image might be only
> a few hundreds of megabytes, so being able to have e2fsck operate on
> that image directly would be a huge win. 

driepoot:~> ls -ls /mnt/md3.img 
61558920 -rw------- 1 root root 2937535070208 Feb 26 00:36 /mnt/md3.img

61 Gigabytes in my case... (and my system finished counting: I have
8.9M directories on there...)

	Roger.

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