Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] qemu-img: Saner printing of large file sizes

[Eric Blake]

On 4/1/19 9:21 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 30.03.2019 um 16:07 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
>> Disk sizes close to INT64_MAX cause overflow, for some pretty
>> ridiculous output:
>>
>>   $ ./nbdkit -U - memory size=$((2**63 - 512)) --run 'qemu-img info $nbd'
>>   image: nbd+unix://?socket=/tmp/nbdkitHSAzNz/socket
>>   file format: raw
>>   virtual size: -8388607T (9223372036854775296 bytes)
>>   disk size: unavailable
>>
>> But there's no reason to have two separate implementations of integer
>> to human-readable abbreviation, where one has overflow and stops at
>> 'T', while the other avoids overflow and goes all the way to 'E'. With
>> this patch, the output now claims 8EiB instead of -8388607T, which
>> really is the correct rounding of largest file size supported by qemu
>> (we could go 511 bytes larger if we used byte-accurate sizing instead
>> of rounding up to the next sector boundary, but that wouldn't change
>> the human-readable result).
>>
>> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> 
> Thanks, applied to the block-next branch for 4.1.

You'll need v2. Coming up shortly.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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