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[Xen-devel] Re: Getting xen to recognise large disks

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Getting xen to recognise large disks
From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:21:47 +0000
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 21/11/06 2:13 am, "Robin Bowes" <robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> FYI, I opened a bugzilla against Fedora to track this problem since I can
>>> also trivially reproduce it by creating a (sparse) 5 TB block device and
>>> exporting it to a guest.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216555
>>>
>>> On x86_64 meanwhile everything is sizing up correctly - I succesfully
>>> exported a 15 PB (yes, PB) block device to a PV guest.
>> OK, I'll track that bug.
>
> I'll make a patch today.
>

Thanks Keir, looking forward to testing it.

R.


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